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The other day we told you that the Nook Color, Barnes & Noble’s latest eBook reader, has been rooted and thus transformed into a cheap Android tablet capable to run various Android including Angry Birds. Today we’re back with a full rooting guide, but make sure you got what it takes to go through it as we’re looking at a more complex process here.
While rooting Android devices is perfectly legal, we won’t advise you to go down this road, which could have some unwanted consequences. However, if you still want to go down this road, you bear the sole responsibility of whatever happens to your Nook Color.
Now, go get yourself a large cup of coffee and goes through these instructions, courtesy of AndroidGuys and Nook Devs, in order to perform this troublesome root:
What do I need?
• You need a B&N nookColor
• You need a 64 MB or higher microSD card that you are willing to completely erase.
• You need access to a computer.
• the computer must be able to read and write a microSD card.
• the computer must have a working USB port to talk to the nook.
• Any apks you would like to install
This process can be done from a Linux, Windows or Mac machine. If you are on windows you will need a windows DD program. This one [1] may work. Mac users should have a dd program.
And what do I do with it?
1. Download Pokey9000′s “nooter” file:
http://www.mediafire.com/?hugt8uxcfffpdvg
2. Unzip it using your favorite unzipper.
3. Write the microSD card image
1. For Linux Users:
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• Bring up a terminal
• Navigate to the directory you unzipped the microSD card image to
• If you are running in Linux, Ensure your microSD card is unmounted (run as root)
• § # umount /dev/<sdcard>
where is your sdcard (this will be something like /dev/sdc, not the mount point of the sdcard) Don’t just copy the term you need to know the name of the sdcard’s device. Please be sure you’re writing to your sd card and not to your hard disk. This is dangerous.
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• write the image to your microSD card. (run as root)
• WARNING: This will completely erase your microSD card. Be sure to back it up!
• § # dd if=sdcard_40mb.img of=/dev/<sdcard>
1. For Windows users: You can find instructions for writing a DD image in windows here: http://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/ds5gs/ds5gs_2sdc_windows.htm but be very careful, since if you designate the wrong target you could overwrite your hard disk instead of the sd card. Be very careful. Note that Vista and Windows7 users will have to use a Volume GUID like .Volume{6c284f7a-f64f-11df-84a3-00219be2d9e2} for the target after identifying it with dd –list.
2. For Mac Users: you can find instructions for writing images to disk on mac osx here: http://www.thelinuxdaily.com/2010/01/writing-images-to-disk-on-mac-osx-with-dd/ the same warnings apply. Be very careful.
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o Remove the microSD card from your computer.
2. Boot the nook with the microSD card.
o Shut the nook down completely. Hold the power button for 15 seconds.
o Put in the sd card
o Plug the usb cable from your NC into your computer. The nook will attempt to boot.
o Nothing should appear to happen. If you’re using the Nook cable, the charge LED might blink
o In about a minute, your computer will see a new USB device.
In Windows, it will probably complain about missing drivers unless you have USB ethernet drivers installed (unlikely). If you are planning to use the ADB to install apps, then you will need the windows USB drivers which are a downloadable part of the Android SDK. See details here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html
In Linux it will show up as a CDC ethernet and serial combo device
o Once the devices show up, wait another 30 seconds and remove the card
o Hold down the power button for 15 seconds again, let go, then hold for another 2
At this point, the nook firmware has been modified to enable SSH and ADB connections. If you have installed the the Android SDK you can now install apps directly using the ADB program in the SDK once you add the Nook Color vendor ID to your adb setup.
The NC vid is 0×2080
Other connection methods
The following instructions are for individuals who wish to experiment with the command line via SSH and/or install apps via SCP rather than downloading the sdk and using adb.
Connect to the nookColor with ssh with the following command.
• $ ssh root@192.168.2.2
• When prompted for a password, press ENTER.
NOTE: If your ssh session dies without warning, it is likely you have a network manager interfering with you usb0 device. You may need to close it to continue.
NOTE 2: If the above two commands don’t work, try the following command as as root.
# ifconfig usb0 192.168.2.1; ssh root@192.168.2.2
You can also copy the apk files for the apps you want to install on the nook into the app folder on the nook using SCP.
• Start a new terminal on the linux box Do not close the terminal you already have that is ssh’ed into the nook. This is a seperate process.
• Navigate to the location of the apks you downloaded
• Execute the following command for each apk you wish to install.
• # scp root@192.168.2.2:/mnt/app/
o Where is the file name of the apks you with to install
• When prompted for a password, just hit ENTER
You will need to change the mode of the app files
• Switch back to the SSH terminal session.
• Execute the following command
• # chmod ugo+r /mnt/app/*
Reboot your nookColor
• Still in the SSH terminal window
• # reboot
Remove the microSD card from the nook
11. Power on your nook by long pressing the power button (for atleast 10 or so seconds) twice. You can stop pressing when the LCD flashes.
13. Your apps should appear in Extras (or LauncherPro if you installed it)
Have you rooted your Nook Color yet? Have you installed Angry Birds on the Nook Color yet?
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