How To Root Nook Color On Android

Posted by dkszone on December 2, 2010

Nook Color e-book reader has been rooted to allow installation of advanced apps and games on it. Here is a step-by-step rooting process :

ROOT NOOK COLOR

What You Need

- A B&N Nook Color

- 64 MB or higher blank microSD card

- Computer with working USB port to connect to NookColor device

Rooting Process

1. Download Pokey9000′s nooter 0.2 and unzip it’s content to desktop.

2. Insert microSD card to your PC and write the extracted image content on to microSD card.

If you are new to writing image on microSD card, follow the steps:

For Windows Users : Write using Winimage
For Mac Users : Write image on disk
For Linux Users:

- Launch terminal and microSD card is unmounted (run as root).

- Navigate to directory where you extracted the zip content

# umount /dev/<sdcard>

Where <sdcard> is your microSD card. Replace with your card’s name in it’s place. Make sure you’re writing to your sd card and not to your hard disk!

# dd if=nooter_sdcard_40mb.img of=/dev/<sdcard>

3. After finishing writing, eject the microSD card from PC.

4. Shutdown your Nook completely. Then insert microSD card into NookColor device.

5. Plug the USB cable from your Nook into your computer’s USB.

6. Nook will boot the microSD. Your computer should recognize the new USB device and start installing it. Note that in Windows, your PC may say about missing drivers. Just ignore it. Wait for 30 seconds so that script makes the changes to enable ADB.

7. Unplug USB connection, remove microSD card and reboot Nook Color by holding down the power button for 15 seconds.

8. Plug-in USB cable again.

9. Now nook firmware will get modified to enable ADB connections. Please note the Nook is newer than ADB so you will need to update the ADB INI file before ADB will detect it. The NC vendor id is 0×2080. Follow these steps:

For Windows : NookColor USB ADB
For Linux and Mac: Put the Nook Color vendor id in the adb_usb file with the following command: