Last week, the power button on my Nook Color broke, so I've been trying to get it returned to B&N for a replacement. However, having rooted and changed the device, I'd like to restore it to factory settings, but I have no way to power off the device or boot it into recovery to reflash the stock firmware/recovery. I've tried the ADB command "reboot recovery", but it only reboots the device.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, because I'm not too confident in opening the device myself and trying to fix it.
Edit: I've tried DDing the original files also, but have way too much trouble formatting my SD card properly. I'm going to continue trying to do that, but in the meantime, help getting into recovery would make the process much easier on me.
Thanks again.
If anyone has any advice, I still need some help on this.. Still no success DDing from Nookie Froyo...
Guy_Fawx said:
If anyone has any advice, I still need some help on this.. Still no success DDing from Nookie Froyo...
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You can get into recovery from Rom Manager.
Oi, duh... -facepalm- Thank you.
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OK so I tried to use ADB to push an modded Launcher2.apk. For some reason (even though I copied and pasted the commands into the prompt) the launcher force closes over and over. I cannot do anything on the device. Tried a hard-reset but it survives, again force closes over and over.
How can I go back to COMPLETELY STOCK without being able to access the device?
EDIT: FIXED! Thanks grainysand for giving instructions. I'll also take this opportunity to flip the e-bird to the folks who snidely responded with things that not only didn't help, but just makes XDA that much less accessible. I hope those folks got a huge boner off of it. But again, thanks to those who did help.
Plug it into your PC and try rebooting into recovery via ADB commands?
No idea how. If you know what commands to use that'd be greatly appriciated!
adb reboot recovery
Just replace the file you just pushed with it's original, providing you still have it. If you don't find it, and then push it back over the top. It will still mount as adb, if you don't have debugging on persist through the popups and turn it on, adb push.
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Just replace the file you just pushed with it's original, providing you still have it. If you don't find it, and then push it back over the top. It will still mount as adb, if you don't have debugging on persist through the popups and turn it on, adb push.
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I do have it, and I tried this, it didn't work. I cannot get to the device whatsoever, the launcher will not run, it repeatedly force closes. Tried pushing it back via ADB, the prompt says it copied correctly, but on reboot, same thing. I'm going to need to flash, just don't know how.
Just restore the Nand backup you made before trying to push the modded launcher over.
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Just restore the Nand backup you made before trying to push the modded launcher over.
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I didn't make one, which yeah, I know I should had; but I was in a hurry and I thought pushing the backup file back over would be fine if it messed up. But now that I can't get that done, not sure what else to do.
level5music said:
I didn't make one, which yeah, I know I should had; but I was in a hurry and I thought pushing the backup file back over would be fine if it messed up. But now that I can't get that done, not sure what else to do.
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Return it to Google and buy a prepaid candybar phone that is not a smartphone.
By no means is your phone bricked, or even close to it. Do as we've suggested, there are tons of options that aren't listed here. Wipe, flash, etc. As I stated, push a launcher that won't clash with your system.
ScottC said:
Return it to Google and buy a prepaid candybar phone that is not a smartphone.
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Look how awesome you are! Dude, could we not have these kinds of posts? If you can't help, don't post.
level5music said:
I didn't make one, which yeah, I know I should had; but I was in a hurry and I thought pushing the backup file back over would be fine if it messed up. But now that I can't get that done, not sure what else to do.
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I already knew that... but thought someone should make the point. You should be able to fix this issue relatively easily by booting into recovery and flashing a custom ROM again. It should overwrite launcher2.apk, if I'm not mistaken.
uansari1 said:
I already knew that... but thought someone should make the point. You should be able to fix this issue relatively easily by booting into recovery and flashing a custom ROM again. It should overwrite launcher2.apk, if I'm not mistaken.
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I'm not sure how to do this.. only ADB? I'm fairly new to Android, it's not like booting WinMo devices to bootloader and running an exe of course. I'm really dumb at ADB at the moment, so commands would really help me out. I do appreciate the help though guys!
We already told you to boot into recovery and go from there. Did it not work or something?
I'm not rooted, but IIRC, turning off the phone, then restarting it while holding the volume down button will give you the option to boot into recovery, no? So all you have to do is copy the ROM that you originally flashed to the phone onto the root of your SD card, go into Recovery (I'm assuming you're running Amon_RA's Recovery, which is an excellent product), and flash the zip file.
If what I wrote sounds confusing or you don't understand it, then you were premature in rooting your phone and messing around with files therein, and you need to do some researching and reading on this site (including the G1 forum) for all the info regarding these processes.
Anyway, don't freak out... your phone will be fine. I'm going back to bed...but I'm sure someone can give you a step by step to what I said if need be (hopefully you know how do to this though)...
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We already told you to boot into recovery and go from there. Did it not work or something?
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What does the filename have to be? What if I only have the regular recovery? I tried the file unzipped and recovery just sat there.
Ok I kept Googling and trying stuff. I got a stock rom from MDC and tried to flash it in stock recovery (I dont think it was amon-ra's, no real way to tell that I could see).. tried to flash the stock rom and it says Verification Failed. Ugh.. does anyone have step by step instructions? I'm really failing here.
You can tell it's Amon_RA's. It's got a... well, depending on which version you got it'll either have the Nexus logo or a green or pink Carebear.
Anyway.
Download the Amon_RA recovery if you haven't already. Flash it (fastboot flash recovery filename.img).
Type:
adb reboot recovery
You should now be in Amon_RA's recovery. Select wipe and wipe everything. Then select "Flash from SD card" and flash whichever ROM you downloaded.
My NC wont boot no matter what I do. When I connect it to my pc (windows xp) I get an RNDIS ethernet gadget in the new hardware notifications. The nook was rooted but I did a hard reboot before finishing the setup because it wouldn't connect to my google account. The NC wont even show the "touch the future of reading screen" and I cant get adb to find the device. I rooted when I had freshly wiped everything and downgraded to 1.0.0 then I upgraded to 1.0.1 then I rooted. It worked fine until after the hard reset.
HELP!!!!
FIX!
I'm sorry for the double post, but I want to make this clearly visible when someone else has this problem.
So, all you have to do to get it to boot is try to put the device into recovery mode. It won't actually go into recovery mode though, it will just boot into the regular os.
Clockwork Mod Recovery
I can't go into recovery. I have Clockworkmod installed.
bumpity bump,
Im back to this issue seems my fix up there wasn't right. I did a FULL wipe on the nook (/system, /data) and then proceeded to update and root. after rooting I rebooted the nook with the autonooter sd card still inserted and then the device wouldnt boot. I tried removing the sd card and still no luck. adb doesn't find it but it is detected as a "RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget" under windows. Is there a way for me to boot the nook?\
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got it to boot by mashing the power button and putting nookie froyo inside :/ im not sure why but thats probably how I got it last time too.
Clockwork...did the same thing
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I can't go into recovery. I have Clockworkmod installed.
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Folks,
I've done the same thing. I backed up with Clockwork to the SD. The Nook would only boot into Clockwork. So, I recovered and now the device will not power up at all. I fear that I have bricked a wonderful device that I spent alot of time on. It will not boot at all, will not respond to the power button at all and I don't know what to do. Does anyone have any suggestions or am I screwed?
FG.
I have the same problem with Motitas and it was updated to 1.1 recently. Please help.
the screen stops to nook icon only. does it mean i have a brick now ? PLEASE Help.
Please read my threa a few threads down from this one, titled "dummies guide to my nook wont boot." it explains everything.
I'm trying to unroot my NookColor, and I'm having quite a bit of trouble. I know I have to reflash the ROM to its original state, (by doing the eight failed boot attempts thing.) but it seems that in the process of doing that, ClockWorkMod gets in my way, and doesn't allow to Nook to do its thing (resetting on its own). I'm not sure of what I should do to resolve this issue.
I've tried with the SD card in, and out, and after scouring Google for hours, I relented and decided to post here.
Any help would be great.
Tom
Can you still boot to home screen? If so, you can try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10543243&postcount=124
memorydead said:
I'm trying to unroot my NookColor, and I'm having quite a bit of trouble. I know I have to reflash the ROM to its original state, (by doing the eight failed boot attempts thing.) but it seems that in the process of doing that, ClockWorkMod gets in my way, and doesn't allow to Nook to do its thing (resetting on its own). I'm not sure of what I should do to resolve this issue.
I've tried with the SD card in, and out, and after scouring Google for hours, I relented and decided to post here.
Any help would be great.
Tom
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By flashing the ClockWorkMod recovery it overwrites the stock recovery that would allow you to do the failed boot restore. You will get more answers and support if you read and post your question within the ClockWorkMod Recovery post, found HERE. There are a couple people in that post that are working on fixing this same problem as you. I have not read in detail, but I believe they are attempting to boot from the SD card with froyo, found HERE, to be able to attempt to flash back to stock.
I can confirm that booting from froyo allows you to mount internal boot partition (mmcblk0p1) and replace uRecRam to revert back to original recovery. Then proceed to system reset and then to factory reset. See clockwork recovery thread for further information.
Sam
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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 am new to the Nook Color, but I am pretty experienced with my Moto Droid. Can anybody please help me, even if I need to restore my Nook to factory settings. I really don't think the 8 boot method is working at all.
There may be an easier solution, but one that will work is to dd the stock images back onto emmc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919353
Thanks, I sure hope you're right. I can't do anything at the moment, I've tried an sd card image, but it won't even boot that.
Have you tried a nookie froyo card? How are you writing them? I've noticed cards i write with dd on my cr48 don't work, but cards I write in ubuntu and diskimager do.
I'm using Win32DiskImager, and it still doesn't seem to be working. I'm starting to think I really screwed it up. It doesn't do anything. I've tried a bootable CWR and no luck. I'm also having trouble with ADB, I keep getting error messahe, error: device not found.
I'm in the same boat
You should read more before attempting such things on your NC...
First, don't panick..there's very very little chance you can't get it to work again..
Then read all the threads about froyo on emmc and supposedly bricked NCs. Its all out there..
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I finally got a connection between my nc and computer. But I am not able to do anything else. adb device shows SN so I know I have a connection. I've tried dd boot.img and system.img but it says directory not found. Any other suggestions?
Ok, I'm finally back up and running. I was finally able to boot into CWR from sd. Then I formatted data and system. Then I flashed update.zip(Sam's 1.0.1 recovery). Took longer than I had hoped, but I'm so glad I was able to do it. Thanks for everyone's help with this. I'm glad I joined this forum.
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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.