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Root [Guide] How to install CM7 on your Nook Color

You could start with a lot more information... :D

Are you in recovery?
What file are you trying load? Hope you didn't unzip it first. :D
Are you sure you're looking in the right location?
Are you sure you copied it to your sdcard?
 
Hey colchiro! Thanks so much for your thread! A stable CM10.1 is out, so should CWM 3.2.0.1 still suffice as the bootloader? Should I follow your step 3 (which was what worked perfectly to get 7.2.0 on my NC) exactly with its new GApps? ROM Manager doesn't seem to be downloading anything (stuck at 0% multiple times) so I can't do step 1. Thanks!
 
CM 10.1 is preferred on devices that can handle it, but based on my experience, the NC doesn't have enough cpu or ram to run it.

Others may disagree.
 
You know how everything is already slow & lagging on your Nook with CM7, even when overclocked?

Everything is even slower on CM10.1.

You're welcome to try it. Just make a backup in recovery of your current rom (CM7) so you have something to come back to if you don't like 10.1.

Then wipe both caches and data and flash CM10.1 and the 2013 gApps. After several hours to a day of use, it'll speed up a little as your caches get rebuilt.
 
:/ Blast. I may give it a shot still. Will CWM 3.2.0.1 suffice, or should some newer version be used? I couldn't seem to use a 6.--- at all that I had found.
 
I haven't had a NC for years now (too slow :D) so I may not be much help.

You should be able to use what you used last time since it should still work on CM7, but to restore CM7 after CM10.1, you might need a newer version.

Best probably to flash the latest version I now use for the bootable sdcard.
 
Well, clicks took multiple seconds to see any effect... but as I already reverted to 7.2.0, I'll wait for these recent nightlies (after the stable...) to produce something of significance before attempting again, I think :rolleyes:
 
Me thinks you'd be wasting your time, but it is fun to try out new roms.

Next time let it settle for at least a day before pulling the plug. :D

I bet you could find a Nexus 7 on CraigsList for a little over $100 to replace your NC and have a ton of roms to try.... Supposedly a new model is coming out this fall, which will get you a lot of cheap ones for sale.
 
Well, the thing is, the keyboard was despicable, which immediately, permanently turned me off. I don't like SwiftKey, either; in fact, the only keyboard I've liked is my HTC Sensation's, which has a unique light-gray one (or so I've been told) and upon which I can blaze, but at least 7.2.0's is decent. How might I be able to transmit the 7.2.0 keyboard to 10.1, if that's even possible? And how's this? :p
 
Lenovo, 'eh?

Price is nice, but specs are mediocre at best. Good luck with rooting it or any custom roms or mods.

The Nexus 7 has twice the ram and overall better specs. If you're going to upgrade, might as well make it worth it. Your Lenovo is Gingerbread with no upgrade path and probably little to no support since it's a dead-end product. I'd hold out for at least a 16 gb N7 tho. Many of the 8gb owners run out of storage.
 
Well, I'm not so concerned about a tablet as I find it to be a truly unnecessary luxury item when one has a laptop and a Droid smartphone. I just got this Nook on a deal while I was getting a gift for someone else, and am just trying to see how I can make the most out of it. Do you have any free keyboards to recommend for 10.1? And what does it mean when these guys are coming out with nightlies immediately after releasing the stable? Is it not stable after all, then?
 
A nightly build is built at a certain time every day, whether there are changes for your device or not. Quite often the device-specific updates might be weeks apart and the CM code changes might not even affect your device. You need to monitor the changelog or hang out in a forum where they discuss it more often. Although AF is a more newbie-friendly forum, there are other forums where you'll learn a lot more, because the developers frequent. For the Nook Color, that's probably XDA.

The most stable nightlies are usually before a stable release or after release candidates. I would think it won't take long before it becomes less stable tho, as major changes are introduced.
 
Kk, I'm gonna try the current nightly for June 29...
So no good alternative free keyboards come to mind, or any way to get the 7.2.0 keyboard onto Jellybean? And is there a way to make Nook Colors NOT power on if they are plugged in to charge while turned off?
 
I used to recommend the hacker's keyboard, otherwise you can simply browse the keyboards in Play Store. You can't just copy a keyboard from one version to another. Often it relies on a certain library.

It's been a long time since I had hands-on a NC, but you might be able to plug it in before you shut it down.
 
All right, here's a slightly more comprehensive review. After wiping the reinstalled 7.2.0 again and installing the June 29 nightly via your same steps from method 3 using CM 6.something.0.5 (or whichever it is that summons forth the bright teal-colored "cyanoboot: universal bootloader" text), it's actually hardly a wink (if any) slower than 7.2.0 for my ancient NC 1.2.0, and even that only in times when a lot of memory is being used; otherwise, the animations are all smooth with no to little lag and typing is half-decent. So it's here to stay, and I'm glad for the usage of Gingerbread-incompatible apps (as well as gTalk account-changing! I'm never upgrading to Hangouts according to user reviews, so far...)!

But here's a tip I apparently discovered; if you don't want any memory-heavier apps to suddenly stop registering your presses/taps for times at a time...

... don't use a live wallpaper. :D Or at least one that incorporates touch interaction.
 
I have been trying for so long. I cant even get my nook color to boot into cwm let alone root it. What is my problem that it just goes straight to the nook os after I start it with the card I have everything on. I went by all the instructions and Ive been to a zillion other sites. I just dont get it. Its the nook color too not the tablet. Any help would be amazing.
 
They may have disabled that in newer B&N SW versions.

If you can see the files on the sdcard after flashing it, the card should be good. O/W, try a different card?

Are you sure you don't have the Nook Touch, which has a microphone hole opposite the headphone jack on the top? The NT can't use this guide. :D
 
OK I have been running CM7 off my Nook Color for years now. Now I have a new Nook Tablet Model BNTV400. Don't really know if that means Nook Tablet, Nook Tablet HD, Tablet, or Nook Tablet HD+. I'm wishing to first do some test runs using a SdCard boot able with CM7, or the latest CM10. Is there a SdCard bootable version of ClockWorkMod Recovery I can run against the stock firmware to backup the factory rom first before I try anything?
 
Hello,

Thank you for the detailed instructions on rooting nookcolor. I followed all of the directions and successfully (I hope) installed CM 7.2. The problem I'm running into is that I can't login to Google or Play store. I get the error " Your username and password do not match. Please try again." Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks!!
 
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