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Root Total Android newbie confused by rooting tutorials! HELP!!

nyssa

nyssa

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So after extensive research, I decided to buy a nook color and root it to run Android. I'm thinking I want to run Gingerbread or Froyo, NOT Honeycomb at the moment. I consider myself a fairly tech-savvy individual, but I have no experience with Android. My root process is not going very well, even though I've done everything the tutorials out there tell me to do, and I just don't know enough about this platform to be able to troubleshoot the problems myself. PLEASE HELP! :(

Here's what I did:
1: Loaded Auto-Nooter 3.0 onto my SD card (my nook is running 1.1)
2: Rooted the nook - everything seemed fine, Android Market worked, etc. (although it still essentially just looked like a nook with the Android Market installed - is this normal? It appeared to be the same OS! Didn't even realize the root had "taken" at first...)
3: Downloaded ClockworkMod Recovery, installed it.
4: Loaded Cyanogen onto my SD card (still zipped up as my tutorials instructed)
5: Rebooted the nook

The only change is that the word "Android" appears along the upper left side of the screen before the Android boot screen shows up. Then, it gets stuck on the boot screen indefinitely.

Tutorials etc. say that the first boot after installing Cyanogen takes a long time, but I've left it booting for intervals of up to 20 minutes, with no luck at all. It just stays on the boot screen.

Can somebody help me? Preferably by breaking it down into simple language? I'm new to rooting and to Android, and a lot of the tutorials include language I don't necessarily understand...

Or if you have no idea what I'm talking about re: ClockworkMod Recovery and Cyanogen, but know how to get my nook running full Android some other way, please feel free to help me start the process over again, doing it your way this time. I'm not picky about how I get there as long as I DO eventually get there! :)

Thanks in advance everybody!
 
I didn't do any of that because I didn't see steps for those things in the tutorials. I pretty much followed my tutorials step by step....but it's totally possible that I missed something in there, since I don't understand a lot of the technical and Android-specific terms. I will re-read the tutorials and see if I missed a mention of that.

I will read up on Phiremod and see if that's any easier. Simplicity is key for me right now since I'm a beginner...but right now the decision isn't pressing since I can't even get the darn thing off of the Android boot screen. :\ Even resetting it (8x reset) isn't working...
 
At this point you want to preserve your battery. I'd hold down the power button until it shuts off and keep it plugged in. I'm not sure if it'll charge before it gets into the OS.

Do you have Clockwork recovery on your sd card?

If you hold down your Nook button, then power it on, holding the Nook button for about 5 seconds, do you boot into CW recovery?

If you can boot into recovery, I'd format system, format cache, format data, then install your rom again. (Do not format boot!)
 
CWR was downloaded from the app store (the tutorial said this was okay to do). So no, it's not on my SD card.

Also, no matter what I put on the SD card, the nook still boots to the Android screen and gets stuck. I can't appear to get to any other screen at the moment. Is there any other way to reset it? I'd kind of just like to start the root over again from scratch, maybe to Phiremod this time.
 
DoAndroidDream? said:
Just in case. :D

How To: Restore the Nook Color to Stock | TheUnlockr
Click to expand...

Steps I and II on this will get you a CW recovery sd card that will boot you into recovery.

By copying your rom (CM7 or Phiremod) to the sd card will let you flash either one.

Boot into recovery from your sd card, then select mounts then format system/cache/data, then install zip from sd card, choose zip from sd card and find your rom, and flash it. Use vol up/dn buttons to select the option you want and the nook button to do the highlighted task. The power button goes back.

(If flashing CM7, you may have other steps, like flashing Google Apps. Insert those steps here. Phiremod includes Google apps and other tweaks.)

When done, remove the sd card and choose reboot. The first time will take at least 5 minutes.
 
Alright. Booted into recovery, gonna try to install Phiremod. Here's hoping. If not, I'm probably just going to reset it entirely and live with the default nook color OS for a while until I'm less frustrated with the process... :(
 
Ummm.....oookay. Booted into recovery, tried to install Phiremod, no luck, still stuck on the same Android screen as before. So I said, "Screw it" and went in and did a factory reset from the recovery menu...rebooted again...and NOW Phiremod is booting. Weird stuff. I hope it boots up okay!!
 
So far so good! Running full Android, got tons of apps installed and working, no bugs so far. Totally weird, that performing factory reset FIXED the problem. Apparently "factory reset" is code for "install Android properly this time".

Thanks so much for your help, guys - especially the Phiremod recommendation, I'm loving it so far. :)
 
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