I noticed over at XDA this morning that the GlowNooter rooting package for the GlowLight Nook Touch was updated last week to work with the new 1.2.x firmware update that Barnes and Noble issued back in November.
Ever since the 1.2 firmware update, GlowNooter would freeze up and not complete the rooting process. This is fairly typical when it comes to firmware updates and rooting so it’s no big surprise.
Luckily the developer for the project, Gabrial Destruir, went ahead and took the time to update the rooting package for anyone who gets a GlowLight Nook Touch after the 1.2 update.
However, the rooting package for the regular Nook Touch, called TouchNooter, has not yet been updated for the 1.2 firmware. I’m not sure if it still needs testing or what. You can keep an eye on the TouchNooter thread at XDA. Gabrial notes that the GlowNooter fix may work on the regular Nook Touch too. The fix just uses a patched framework.jar file from the latest 1.2 update.
Development for the E Ink Nooks has really dropped off over the past six months but it’s good to see that fixes are still coming along when B&N unwittingly breaks things.
Check out my step-by-step directions for rooting the Nook Glow using GlowNooter if you want to try out the new updated rooting package.
Dude,
You can use that Glownooter on nook touch, if you have 1.2 installed on it.
Nice.
Have tried rooting my Nook GlowLight unsuccessfully. Well at least I haven’t bricked it yet. Am looking for a good set of instructions for rooting it with a Mac via Terminal. Rooted about a dozen Color Nooks with no problems but I must be leaving one step out somewhere while doing the Glowlight. On reboot it behaves like an unrooted Glowlight.
Nathan,
There is as well a new and much easier (specially for use) packgage for rooting, backup, restore, map keys, and much more for Nook and fw 1.2.x:
NookManager – graphical rooter
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2040351
As well, there are new both official and modded CoolReader(s) to work better with 1.2.x fw and fast screen modes.
Regards.
Cool, thanks for pointing that out. I’d never seen that.
Try it. Really worth! 🙂
Zero-effort for almost anything, and many utilities including internal file manager and many custom settings for all rooting, system or keys.
As for CoolReader working correctly for 1.2.x and taking advantage of latest 1.2.x fw patches and fast modes, you need latest official (version 3.1.2-27, from here as usually http://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/files/CoolReader3/cr3-3.1.2/), or modded ones, more stable and different menus or extras or others goodies, like, let’s say 😉 , http://www.lectoreselectronicos.com/showthread.php?13057
For SONY T1/T2 ROOTING, I strongly suggest anyone, any hardware, firmware version, language, or country, use latest, easy and great AMR from rupor , as usually, you can take from here: http://www.the-ebook.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25407
Regards.
Latest Sony rooted versions (just today) and how it looks, see:
http://www.lectoreselectronicos.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=8074&d=1357575717&thumb=1
http://sonyfmngr.sourceforge.net/20130107/01.jpg
http://sonyfmngr.sourceforge.net/20130107/02.jpg
http://sonyfmngr.sourceforge.net/20130107/03.jpg
which version of winimage should be used if the pc is
windows 7 64 bit?