So my friend just got a new NOOKcolor
we successfully rooted it with Auto-Nooter
I was trying to get ADB to work and decided to reboot
now it just repeatedly gets to "Touch the Future of Reading" screen and reboots
I've 'tried' the 8 interrupted reboots but I have yet to get it to restore to anything
I was able to SSH in to it and tried to fix the BootCnt file per a set of instructions on the web (the commands appeared to work but - I'm still at boot loops)
The last resort is just to return it back to Best Buy and wait till the rest of the Android tablets come out...
but I have to imagine there's a way I can restore it somehow - maybe load a new image on to an microSD card or something....
I've had no problems with anything else I've rooted (3 Droid Incredibles, Droid 1, Droid 2)
Argent36 said:
So my friend just got a new NOOKcolor
we successfully rooted it with Auto-Nooter
I was trying to get ADB to work and decided to reboot
now it just repeatedly gets to "Touch the Future of Reading" screen and reboots
I've 'tried' the 8 interrupted reboots but I have yet to get it to restore to anything
I was able to SSH in to it and tried to fix the BootCnt file per a set of instructions on the web (the commands appeared to work but - I'm still at boot loops)
The last resort is just to return it back to Best Buy and wait till the rest of the Android tablets come out...
but I have to imagine there's a way I can restore it somehow - maybe load a new image on to an microSD card or something....
I've had no problems with anything else I've rooted (3 Droid Incredibles, Droid 1, Droid 2)
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Same thing happened to me.
Get Nookie Froyo running off the SD card. From there you can install other tools. I had already made a backup when it happened to me. I was able to use Nookie Froyo to install ROM Manager, and then restore my backup. Not sure what you would need to do from there without a backup. But, either way, I would recommend you check out the Nookie Froyo thread.
EDIT: You could use Nookie Froyo to get Clockwork recovery installed. Then you can return the nook to stock, and start over again.
yeah I just got Nookie Froyo booted up....but there's no market?
Argent36 said:
yeah I just got Nookie Froyo booted up....but there's no market?
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Check out http://www.nookdevs.com/NookColor:_Nookie_Froyo_Tips you have to manually push the google apps
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yeah I just got Nookie Froyo booted up....but there's no market?
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When it happened to me, I wasn't able to connect to adb to push an app.
I gmailed myself the ROM Manager APK, and then got into my gmail from the nookie browser. Installed it from there, and I was good to go. I actually had use nookie froyo 0.5.8, because 0.5.9 was giving me SD card errors and wouldn't let me install an app.
hrm I can't even get ADB to work - keep getting protocol fault (no status) whenever I try to do anything
and yeah its telling me my SD card is damaged too - its brand new though
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hrm I can't even get ADB to work - keep getting protocol fault (no status) whenever I try to do anything
and yeah its telling me my SD card is damaged too - its brand new though
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It has something to do with nookie, not your SD card.
Try the 0.5.8, and grab the ROM Manager apk from the Clockwork thread here in nook development.
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It has something to do with nookie, not your SD card.
Try the 0.5.8, and grab the ROM Manager apk from the Clockwork thread here in nook development.
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yeah loading 0.5.8 Nookie now - and I emailed myself ROM Manager apk and the Nook Color restore file from Koush's site
have you checked this page already?
nookdevs.com Talk:NookColor_Fix_Boot_Loops
I was able to fix boot loops without using nf.
(sorry, I can't post links yet.)
sardeenz said:
nookdevs.com Talk:NookColor_Fix_Boot_Loops
I was able to fix boot loops without using nf.
(sorry, I can't post links yet.)
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That's a different kind of boot loop.
sardeenz said:
nookdevs.com Talk:NookColor_Fix_Boot_Loops
I was able to fix boot loops without using nf.
(sorry, I can't post links yet.)
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been there done that - can't get it to do whatever its supposed to
neither can I figure out the whole 8 interrupted reboots thing either
and no file manager is making it hard to install ROM Manager etc
getting frustrated
Argent36 said:
been there done that - can't get it to do whatever its supposed to
neither can I figure out the whole 8 interrupted reboots thing either
and no file manager is making it hard to install ROM Manager etc
getting frustrated
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I didn't have any trouble getting ROM Manager installed. What is the file manager telling you?
there is no file manager on here so I can't get to the APK's to install them
i'm almost ready to just leave it stuck in boot loops and return it to Best Buy as defective
EDIT: finally got ROM Manager to install
but apparently SuperUser isn't working 100%
and it won't boot to Recovery
and apparently my 6GB microSD card is only really 2.5mb so I can't load this on to it even if I could get in to Recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
If you click on the apk in gmail, it should give you the option to install it right there.
nope it only downloaded it - then in my notification bar I was able to install it from there...
but that hasn't gotten me anything - I flashed Recovery - but it wont boot in to it
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nope it only downloaded it - then in my notification bar I was able to install it from there...
but that hasn't gotten me anything - I flashed Recovery - but it wont boot in to it
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Not sure why you are having issues with ROM Manager, it worked for me. I was stuck in the "future of reading" boot loop for a day, until I went the gmailed apk route.
I wish I could be of more help.
and I wish there was just a way to boot the SD to a stock recovery image
or there was an easy way to get it to do it's restore
Your SD card needs formatting from an Android device. It will then get its initial capacity. Then you can flash.
By the way, ADB should be working from froyo, or even CWR. Get that running, re-run the nook-dev commands for adb over usb. If you can get adb working, snowf0x dd boot image only weighs 11mb. See dev thread.
And please, do read the forum, most of your questions have already been answered 10 times.
Thanks.
the actual problem is when you restore the Nookie Froyo image to the SD card - it only makes it a 2.5mb card.....you can't access the rest of it
EDIT: Doesn't matter anymore - this thread can be closed
my friend is just going to return it and get his money back
If you can boot up Nookie Froyo, then the best way to restore back to stock would be to use the DD images available here in the forums. Just find that thread and follow the instructions. It might be faster using Nookie Froyo 0.5.8 since 0.5.9 has a bug that makes the SD card parition corrupt.
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Got it fixed. Use the clockwork bootable image and get the stock image to revert to stock or reflash froyo to EMMC again
I don't have the technical ability to help in the non-boot issue but why don't you download WinImage, make VHD's of one or both of 8gb cards, then use those cards to install whatever recovery media the fine folks here suggest. THEN once you're up and running again.. and I have no doubt that you will be, this thing seems to be un-brickable, then you can just restore your microSD card from the VHD backup.
Im on a Mac and dont have access to a windows pc. is ther any other way i could go about doing this?
I had the same problem. I Burnt a CWM version that is bootable from an SD card, then I burnt the same card with the 1.00 stock zip image. These files are somewhere on this forum. But the only wait out is that CWM running from as SD card. I had to burn the card with my cellphone.
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how did u burn it on your phone?
On your Mac you can use the TERMINAL app to create an image with no problem .. since you can get into recovery, just put an sd card in a reader on the mac .. format it and burn the image ... for specifics google is your friend .. the osx commands are here .. hope this helps ... BTW using a phone to create an image does not work for many people ...
i know how to burn a image with the Terminal. and i flashed the Nookie froyo wrong and cant even get to recovery at all. and for me I cant seem to do anything with the SDcard since i already flashed nookie foryo on it and cant reformat it. . ive tried everything i can think of and am lost
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i know how to burn a image with the Terminal. and i flashed the Nookie froyo wrong and cant even get to recovery at all. and for me I cant seem to do anything with the SDcard since i already flashed nookie foryo on it and cant reformat it. . ive tried everything i can think of and am lost
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Sorry .. misread and thought you had Recovery ... since you do not, follow the instructions HERE
and use the card created to boot the NC .. once you have it booted install Clockwork Recovery so you have a recovery system ... hope this helps
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The 2 skulls was the way out. If you had the 1.0.1 image on the root of the card assuming you could get past the 2 skulls you would be good to go. Possible the SD card you are using has a problem. Try making a new one with the 1.0.1 in the root of the SD and sintall update from ZIP.
I just did a recovery to stock from froyo eMMC but didn't mess up the /data /system format part.
If all fails, I'd be happy to help if you want to ship it to me and cover shipping in both directions.
I do have the skull image but it did nothing. Left my nook alone and went to school. 8hours later same skull screen. And my mac won't let me reformat any of my sd cards and only worked when inside my nc
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I'm having a similar problem. I recently tried the Flashable Froyo ROM for the Nook Color from modembug on XDA. Now I don't have Clockwork Recovery and need help getting it back. Instead of any boot animation, I just get a "loading..." and then an "ANDROID_" and it doesn't come up at all. The only way to turn it off at this point is to press both and hold both power and n buttons. I really don't think the 8 boot method is working at all.
I've tried ADB but I am unable to connect to my computer, ADB commands say error: device not found.
Try the power+n reset.. hold both for 30 seconds to boot the NC.. the reset data...
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rodalcaraz827 said:
I'm having a similar problem. I recently tried the Flashable Froyo ROM for the Nook Color from modembug on XDA. Now I don't have Clockwork Recovery and need help getting it back. Instead of any boot animation, I just get a "loading..." and then an "ANDROID_" and it doesn't come up at all. The only way to turn it off at this point is to press both and hold both power and n buttons. I really don't think the 8 boot method is working at all.
I've tried ADB but I am unable to connect to my computer, ADB commands say error: device not found.
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I am having the same problem. Anyone made any progress on getting back to stock in this situation? I can boot from sd card with froyo also.
I rooted my nook yesterday using the autonooter 3.0 which i guess is not official, but anyways, I'm just not happy with it and I would like to get my Nook back to stock. However, when I try to do 8 failed boots, it won't cancel the boot when I press the power button. I mean I am jamming it down and it still goes through the boot.
Unfortunately, I also have not figured out how to get adb working. I followed the instructions on nookDevs and adb devices kept showing my SN as 11223344556677. Mind you it was showing up fine in device manager as Android composite ADB device. I figured heck with it I'll just root it. Now its not showing up at all.
So it seems like I'm hosed as far as resetting my nook. Any way out of this?
install clockwork recovery and use that to flash the stock rom.
ok well I installed ROM manager and then flashed CWR to my SD card. I then made a backup of my current rom in case I somehow decided to go back to it. But after selecting reboot system now in CWR it keeps booting into CWR. How do i get out of it?
Is the SD card flashed to CWR still in there? Is like a pc set to boot from the cd drive before hdd, no matter what, if theres a sd card in it, it will try to boot from it first..
You can remove the sd card when in CWR just remove it and then select reboot
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Yeah, I took it out. But for some reason it didnt recognize it wasnt in there. so it was pretty much boot cycling just it was going into CWR. I just flashed the stock 1.0.1 ROM so it's working now, just have to reregister the nook.
Currently I am running nookie froyo 0.6.8 from the internal rom but I am having the following problem even when I had eclair with autonooter. When I am turning off my nook for the night, in the morning I am stuck at the "Touch the future..." screen and I can only boot through clockwork recovery and choose reboot. I think that it started when I flashed clockwork for the first time, but I am not sure. Any ideas?
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Currently I am running nookie froyo 0.6.8 from the internal rom but I am having the following problem even when I had eclair with autonooter. When I am turning off my nook for the night, in the morning I am stuck at the "Touch the future..." screen and I can only boot through clockwork recovery and choose reboot. I think that it started when I flashed clockwork for the first time, but I am not sure. Any ideas?
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I am searching the forums to find an answer to the same problem. I am running stock eclair that has been autonootered. I don't have clockwork installed. I can always boot with the sdcard to Honeycomb.. sometimes I can then reboot back into Eclair.
i had this one time, i try the 8 failed boot's to restore, didn't restore but rebooted to eclair!
arf, i'm having the same problem after all..
I had the same thing happen to me had to reformat cache if I wanted to boot into froyo,its a great system but that one problem did me in went back to stock and rooted the NC and plan on staying this way I just give up flash.Looked all over for fix or someone to explain why but never did get an answer sorry i couldnt help you but if i find answer will let you know
ok will look forward when i have time
At this point i can boot by pressing power + n for 30s, it boot to recovery, then i choose "reboot"
Yes that's right, this is the only way I can boot too (power but. + n).
when rebooted i lower setcpu to 1ghz max. it seems to help to boot ..
There are some really good unbricking//"my nook won't boot" sort of threads to be found in the developers section; but this one should be more than enough to fix your issues:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Additionally, I find that reflashing to a stock ROM or restoring a previous working backup image from CWM is the best way to go about it. Good luck!
I have the same problem too. Just remove the SD card on power on (reboot with software is OK)
Looking for better fix.
Taeseong said:
There are some really good unbricking//"my nook won't boot" sort of threads to be found in the developers section; but this one should be more than enough to fix your issues:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Additionally, I find that reflashing to a stock ROM or restoring a previous working backup image from CWM is the best way to go about it. Good luck!
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Thx, I'll take a look at that if I ever have booting issues.
Think this is caused by the recovery image. Upgrade your recovery to the latest version 3.0.1.0 and see if that fixes it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971197
Going to try that today ..I just looked and i do have an older recovery file so maybe that is the problem will report back later on it.
Did the update, I will shut it off for the night and will check it in the morning.
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I also read CWR does not get along with 1.1..I just updated CWR and it still did the same thing what Im going to do now is clean restore then custom froyo then after setup go to market get rom manager install reboot into recovery and then install the remove crw with root file.
I downloaded the restore to stock zip file. Put it on the sd card. Then used the power and "n" to get to the butloader. Chose install from sd card and it installed. Back to operational!
Hello.
I have a little problem here and need some advise please. I bought my nook and it came with v1.1.0 firmware. I rooted my nook yesterday and installed rom manager and subsequently CWR. When I flashed cwr I used nook color not nook color old. When ever I tried to make a backup of the rom using cwr it would not mount /system.
I then reflashed cwr and tried nook color old and was able to perform a backup (or so I thought). After the backup was complete the phone rebooted into cwr and now I can get the nook to reboot. It always reboots back into cwr. I have tried turning the nook off and rebooting as well as restoring the nand backup that I just made but it still will only go back to the cwr section.
Please any help would be greatly appreciated. I do not have any other backups saved on my computer that I can go to. Would you suggest taking out my sd card and installing something on it trying something that way?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Best,
Anything anyone. I have tried just about all I know and still cant get it. I am able to burn the honeycomb image and boot up with the sd card but of course as soon as I remove it and restart the nook reboots straight into CWM recovery.
I have tried factory reset and all but still nothing. Any ideas please.
here you go - post 7 in this thread has the fix:
Thanks smitty. I just found it as you posted. Much appreciated though. Now I am back to stock and am stuck on the registration. Attempts to register with B&N for some reason wont go through. Gonna search it a bit to see if I can find a solution. Am sure someone else has had this problem.
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Thanks smitty. I just found it as you posted. Much appreciated though. Now I am back to stock and am stuck on the registration. Attempts to register with B&N for some reason wont go through. Gonna search it a bit to see if I can find a solution. Am sure someone else has had this problem.
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CWR Couldn't mount the system partition because there is a bug with the current CWR, you have to install the "kernel" manually. And don't use the "Old nook CRW" either.
Follow the directions found in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971197
To make it short, using ROM Manager, flash the latest CRW 3.0.1.0 for Nook Color. (No flash old one)
Then use ADB to push the kernel file to the boot partition and you are set.
Sorry if this is available here, but I am not having much luck with the instructions that I tried.
I have an auto-nootered 3.0 NC & want to return to stock in order to apply the 1.2.0 update. ( I run CM7 from SD when I want to really have fun) I tried the 8 fail boots & ended up in a boot loop to CWM recovery. What is my easiest (non-ADB) method to get this thing back to 1.1 stock? Again, I apologize if this is right in front of me, but most of the relative threads that I found are very old.
Thanks,
kev
I followed this thread to first remove CWR
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
followed by instructions here to restore to stock
http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
and lastly to side load the 1.2 update.
Cheers
I had to restore to 1.1.0 after autonooter 3.0 by erase and dereg., then 8 starts; 1.2.0 then installed fine.
Jim
For those of us that do NOT have CWM (ClockWorkMod) recovery installed on eMMC, but do have CM7 installed to eMMC, can we use the 8 boot trick to reset our nooks to stock?
I'm running CM7 on my eMMC that I installed using the "CWM on SD" technique. My Nook stopped booting last night after midnight. Since I did not change anything with the OS and had rebooted a couple times earlier in the day, I'm ASSUMING that the 1.2 update came down automagically via wifi late last night, and was unable to complete install when rebooting. I did not see any prompts or input from the Nook during use or on reboot that would have indicated that and update had been received and/or applied.
Also, I was under the impression that the 8 boot reset pulls the software off a chip that has the OS "cooked" into. Is that correct? If not, wouldn't an eMMC install of CM7 remove any chance of the 8 boot reset being successful?
EDIT: just read the linked instructions above. I'll give that a shot tonight.
Anyone have any ideas here - I successfully removed CWM from my NC, then did the eight boot interrupts, and the stock software reload thing seemed to go okay. When I try to reset data by holding down power+n, nothing happens. It turns on, but then right back off. If I try to boot without holding n, it stalls on the "n" screen.
Any thoughts?
Flashed again with cwm up to 1.0.1 and I can't update to 1.2 or 1.1 via internal memory or sd. I changed file names and verified checksums and they are accurate and still no dice. WTF
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Weird. After an erase and deregister 1.1 and 1.2 finally went through. Something must have not been in the right state without that.
So if you're getting stuck do both methods in Part 2 of http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
Same issue as others
Yeah... same issue here. Was running 1.0.1 rooted (no SD method). I did not have CWM Recovery installed in eMMC but did make an 8GB SD CWM Recovery.
So after the failed push update from B&N ... I now have the boot loop issue. My guess is their update failed because of some root thing I had in place. Not installing CWM Recovery to eMMC was my biggest issue because at least that would have blocked the automatic update from B&N.
At any rate... I've tried multiple time to recover and now find myself going back to unrooted stock just so I can get the B&N working again.
My wife is gonna kill me if I can't get this thing working again soon. The new magazine issue of "US" is about to come out. =)
Everybody calm down and just follow the Instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720
[HOW-TO] : Restore Nook Color back to stock EASILY!
That should fix your Nook no matter what you did to it.
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=japzone;That should fix your Nook no matter what you did to it.
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Yes, that works, but that restores the Nook back to 1.0.1. How does one then get it back to 1.1.0?
I followed the same procedure using the 1.1.0 firmware, but it refuses to work.
Anybody know how I can get back to 1.1.0?
Thanks.
assuming you have cwr, have you tried this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050520
I'm about to try it now since I fail at ADB and rebooting apparently...
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Yes, that works, but that restores the Nook back to 1.0.1. How does one then get it back to 1.1.0?
I followed the same procedure using the 1.1.0 firmware, but it refuses to work.
Anybody know how I can get back to 1.1.0?
Thanks.
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I tried this method and it worked perfectly!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=945838