Warnings
-Backup your apps with Titanium Backup if you are coming from a previous installation JUST IN CASE
-If your system freezes hold the home button and power button for 10 seconds to reboot
-This installs regardless of your current ROM situtation (stock, gingerbread, etc)
- I am not liable for anything that happens to your Nook Color or if it eats your children or takes your lunch money
Requirements:
- Nook Color
- atleast 1GB micro SD card
- CyanogenMod 7.1 -10/10/2011
- Google Apps or here
- Bootable CWR Image
- Win32 Disk Imager
- USB SD card reader(a must have, you cannot use the nook for writing to the SD card during this process
Instructions to install from a previous version of CyanogenMod 7:
1. Download all of the above files and put them in a convenient location.
2. Install Clockwork Recovery(VIDEO) from the app Rom Manager if you have not already.
3. Copy the following files to the root directory of the SD card update-cm-7.1.0-encore-signed.zip and gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip
4. Hold down the power button> Reboot> Recovery. Wait a few seconds.
5. Navigate to install from SD card and install update-cm-7.1.0-encore-signed.zip. Only install gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip if you have not already from another Cyanogenmod version.
6. Go back to the home screen using the power button to mounts and storage.
7. Format Cache. Then navigate back one screen to advanced>wipe dalvik cache.
Reboot and Enjoy!
If you encounter any problems such as force closes you should backup your apps with Titanium Backup(VIDEO) and then install like above but format cache, data, and system before hand.
Instructions to install from stock or other rom
Please watch all of the videos i have posted, they fill in the missing info on how to navigate through this process.
1. Download all of the above files and put them in a convenient location.
2. Create an bootable Clockwork Recovery SD card.
3. With the same SD card you just created. Copy the following files to the root directory of the SD card update-cm-7.1.0-encore-signed.zip and gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip
4. Insert the SD card into your turned off Nook Color. Turn on the Nook Color.
6. Navigate to install from SD card and install update-cm-7.1.0-encore-signed.zip. Then install. Once gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip if you have not already from another Cyanogenmod version.
7. Go back to the home screen using the power button to mounts and storage.
8. Format Cache. Then navigate back one screen to advanced>wipe dalvik cache.
VIDEO COMING SOON!!
Known issues and fixes:
-The youtube app from the market will not work with the Nook Color. Uninstall the old version and use this patched version.
Please post all comments, questions, praise and bugs below
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hi
thank you !!
i installed using 8gb_clockwork-3.0.2.8.img and it started working great only all of a sudne after 10 minutes of use an error keeps popping up “the process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectdly please try again” and this message will not go away even after rebooting
any ideas??
are you upgrading from another version? If so what version?
Installed (upgraded from recent nightly)…everything looks good except YouTube won’t play videos at all. Flash works OK in the browser. Tried installing/reinstalling YouTube…no go.
Thanks for the feedback, i’ll get back to you with an answer soon.
I have a solution! Un-install youtube on the nook color and download install this version: mrm3.net/downloads/YouTube-CM7.1.apk
That took care of it. Many thanks! Your work here is definitely appreciated.
yes i updated from the HC-v4-emmc (unstalled with 8gb_clockwork-3.0.2.8.img) which i was not unsatisfied with.should i restore to stock version- firmware 1.2- and try again?
The update only works from previous cyanogenmod builds. no need to return to stock. copy CM7.1 to your SD card. Boot into CWR. mounts and storage>format System,Data, Cache. Then install. Everything should be smooth as butter from then onward.:)
right as usual
works great
thank you very much for the help
Are these instructions for booting the cm7.1 from SD card or from NC internal drive?
Everything good until reboot into recovery. Have to power+n force it into CMR 3.2.0.1. Get through Install from sdcard complete. Mounts and Storage > format /cache > Yes – Format gives me Error Formatting /cache!.
If I try format /system… it hangs. Reboot into CMR again it hangs again at Formatting /system…
I can use – wipe cache partition and – advanced > Wipe Dalvik Cache instead afted installing – update-cm-7.1.0-encore-signed.zip (correct checksum) from sd-card. Everything goes OK except it boots back into CyanogenMod-7-08192011-NIGHTLYE-encore.
Restoring previous Nandroid from internal CMR or SD CMR also hangs at restoring /system. What should I do? Can not get it back to original ROM either?
I’m _very_ new to Android and the NC. Love the idea, just can’t get it to work.
I installed CM 7.0.1 and gapps 20110828. CM seemed to boot fine. But I don’t get any buttons on the bottom of the screen. Am I supposed to? Also, the market loops with “loading…” for at least half an hour.
So thinking I needed to reflash, I read the above comment and tried reformatting /system, /data, and /cache. But when I tried formatting /data, CWR said “error formatting /data.”
Any idea what I should do? I’m stuck.
Maurice, what happened to the link for the 3.2.0.1 version of the CWR .zip?
Pat
Well, for anyone looking for it, it is here: http://www.multiupload.com/0DLC9QATOW
i removed it because there is a newer version out. Any reason why you needed the old version?
Ya hoo! Purchased my Nook three days ago and read up much about rooting and changing ROM etc. Tonight I finally got the guts to try it. Ran into some minor difficulties but the answer was posted here. Thanks.
It serves to v1.3.0 or 1.2.0 only?
any version
Thank you for the tutorial.
How can i do a complete reset to get rid of all previous data on my nook color with cm7?
boot into CWR>factory reset.
I JUST INSTALLED MOD 7 AND NOW I’M GETTING APP SETUP WIZARD HAS STOPPED UNEXPECTEDLY WHAT SHOULD I DO TO RESOLVE THIS PROBLEM
Hi! We have a blue dot NC that had firmware 1.2. I rooted it with “How to root a nook color” instructions. Everything worked accept for the Nook functionality, we couldn’t read any of the books we had purchased or buy any others. I don’t use it as much as she does, but I understand it failed completely or an upgrade was pushed. We ended up with a NC with the new 1.3 firmware and all of our apps were gone. I finally got some time to root it again and decided on the Cyanoenmod this time. Following the instructions, I am able to load the two ZIP files from the card. We seem to have a crippled installation. When I try to adjust the Cyanoenmod settings I get this error: process com.android.settings stopped unexpectedly. I tried to revert to 1.2 and it never finishes the startup screen. I have reinstalled Cyanoenmod and it still crippled. There are no option buttons or function buttons in any of the apps and the alert bar is missing across the top. I feel I am close to making this work but I have missed someting or am doing something in the wrong order or missing a step. I have now had the thought that I should be installing the Cyanoenmod on top of the very first rooting that I did. Please help. Thank you.
Strange stuff happening with the microsd card lately. I’ve been on 7.1.0-stable now for about a month, all’s been well. Today, though, I noticed that my SD card (32G, partitioned into a 30 and a 2GB partition, with /sdcard mounted on the 30GB one) is being read out as a 5GB partition, out of which only 199MB are being used, and the Nook (using Root Explorer) can’t see most of the files that are there. I plugged the card into my ‘puter (Linux box) – no problem reading any of the files (8+ GB, 20+ GB free . Anyone else seeing this?
Doing df -h in a terminal shows:
/dev/block/vold/179:8 5.2G 199.4M 5.0G /mnt/sdcard
/dev/block/vold/179:8 5.2G 199.4M 5.0G /mnt/sdcard/asec
/dev/block/vold/179:17 30.0G 8.2G 21.7G /mnt/emmc
WTF?
How did the moint points get flip-flopped like that?
I went ahead and restored everything from a recent Root Manager backup, and everything’s OK again, of course.
I just wanted to mention that I have seen some minor weirdness happen on this thing after coming out of a prolonged (couple of days) sleep state…unfortunately the others were minimal and happened a while ago so don’t remember them..but this one also happened after the Nook had been resting quietly for a couple of days. It still had plenty of battery left, though, so that shouldn’t be a factor.
2 cents’ worth.