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Stuck in boot loops

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

Argent36 said:
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

Argent36 said:
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.

philburkhardt said:
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

Argent36 said:
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.

Help!!! I think I have bricked my NookColor

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..
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

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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Nook color won't turn on, won't boot sd card

Well I don't know what I did but this morning when my nookie froyo emmc was at 20 percent it decided to turn off and not turn on and won't turn on when charged and will not boot any sd cards. I feel stupid but after my nook working on emmc froyo for a week and now its not even turning on I feel very stupid. All help is appreciated, thanks!
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Have you tried booting to the CWR card yet? And using Samuelhalff's zip that restores the stock partitions? This seems to have worked for many people experiencing the fatal Froyo crash. Take a look at the 'Easily Restore to Stock" thread found here in the Nook forums. And in the end if your device truly won't turn on, then chances are the guys down at B&N won't be able to either. *Warranty*

Well I have tried monster root pack as a card but I haven't tried stock partitioning,i dont know where the thread is. But will this let me even boot an sd card ?
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RileyGrant said:
Were you running froyo off emmc? If so:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720
I recommend flashing this ROM instead though (pre-rooted 1.1):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=932145
And yes if you insert the CWR sdcard into the nook and hold the power button, it will power on. The reason it isnt powering on currently is because your froyo boot partition is corrupted, not because of the nook itself. The CWR sdcard has a different boot partition that your nook will see and boot to when you hold the power button down with the CWR sdcard in.
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Thats my post from an earlier thread with someone having the same issues. It worked for him, it should work for you. Just make sure you follow the steps right and especially make sure your burning the Clockwork image to your SDcard correctly that way it will boot into Clockwork instead of staying black.

I'm gonna have to give these steps a whirl. The downloads are taking foreeeever.
Also had Froyo installed with CWM and just got finished installing gapps. I went to format an SD card, had no luck, and tried to reboot. Ol' Nookie decided not to come back to life after that.
edit: wait, instead of flashing the stock rom can I flash the pre-rooted 1.1 rom?

Just read this over on android central (in a thread about flashing honeycomb). I believe it is what I did and why my nook won't boot:
****While running Honeycomb from Internal Memory NEVER choose the option to format your SD Card from within Honeycomb. The files that were altered to let HC run internally will lead the OS to actually format your boot partition instead of your SD. If you need to format an SD, do it on your computer or in an Android phone, etc.*****
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Drat. Just got my CWM image on my sd card. Here goes nothin! Will report back

OK, I have CWM booting off the SD card, i'm formatting system and data under mounts and storage, and then i'm installing the 1.0.1 complete restore. It goes through and then I got to reboot system. Then...nothing. Back to black screen. Help please!
I can pop the SD card back in and boot back to CWM. I've tried several times now with no luck

samuelhalff has a flashable zip that restores the boot partition for situations like this. Go look for it in the development forum. you should be able to flash it using CWR and your NC ought to boot.

eyecrispy, thank you! samuelhalff's boot zip followed by his 1.0.1 complete restore zip did the trick.
RileyGrant, thank you for your post as well. Much obliged!!

Mine just shows a blank screen. All I did was boot into ClockwordMod Recovery, make a backup, then reboot. I was going to flash the Honeycomb Rom, but decided to give it some more thought first. Now All I get is the blank screen, it won't power all the way off, and it won't power on or anything
EDIT: Managed to get it to turn off, but when I turn it back on it boots into recovery. I select Reboot System now, and it reboots back into recovery. Forgive me, I'm so new to this Nook Color thing lol
EDIT AGAIN: Tried using the Monster Pack or whatever, flashed the removeclockwork.zip, followed by the installclockwork.zip, then removed the SD card, rebooted, and went right back into Clockwork Recovery. What gives?

YUP Same thing happened to me. I have read all the posts in this thread and i did try to format the card i had in my nook in the brand new phiremod froyo rom. Now it wont boot at all. I have a CRW card on hand and it wont even boot that. Idk right now, nothing is working.

Try reading through the Dummies Guide to Fixing 'My Nook Won't Boot'.
I did it last night and I'm back up and running again. Here's my post for an abridged version of what I did last night: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11374824&postcount=29

I had the same problem until I flashed the repartition fix.
Give that a try

I've got the exact same problem as the OP. Running Froyo on EMMC with no problems for a few days, then I left it for a while and now it wont turn back on or boot from uSD.
I've tried long presses on the power key, usb cable power up, but nothing works. I've tried the v4 HC image and the clockwork recovery image and neither are booting.
I verified the CWR image on my android phone and it does boot on my phone, so the image is definitely okay.
Hate to think it, but could this be a battery management issue in the 0.6.7 image and the battery is now screwed? Doesn't seem like boot partition corruption to me.
Any comments or suggestions are welcomed

ChrisAC84 said:
Mine just shows a blank screen. All I did was boot into ClockwordMod Recovery, make a backup, then reboot. I was going to flash the Honeycomb Rom, but decided to give it some more thought first. Now All I get is the blank screen, it won't power all the way off, and it won't power on or anything
EDIT: Managed to get it to turn off, but when I turn it back on it boots into recovery. I select Reboot System now, and it reboots back into recovery. Forgive me, I'm so new to this Nook Color thing lol
EDIT AGAIN: Tried using the Monster Pack or whatever, flashed the removeclockwork.zip, followed by the installclockwork.zip, then removed the SD card, rebooted, and went right back into Clockwork Recovery. What gives?
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how did you get yours to turn off, my screen says loading... and is stuck there. any help in getting mine to shut off would be helpful

Does holding power button for a few seconds turn it off?

Same thing happened to me, this fixed my problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=986977

Sorry for asking what's probably a silly question, but I haven't seen an answer. Is this known to the Nookie dev(s) and being addressed? Just had it happen running Nookie 0.6.8 off the SD card. I was really enjoying it and just telling the wife how I think I'll flash it to the eMMC, but I might have to reconsider if this might occur. Battery was ~80%, no goof-ups reformatting anything. Locked the screen around 1:10 this afternoon & hadn't touched it since. Got home about an hour ago to turn it on, nothing. Disappointing, Nookie is pretty good!

nook color wont turn on
so what to do if i dont have a sd card with cwr or honeycomb (what i was trying to run)ive already called for the replacement, but i would still like to know what to do.

I found this thread after suffering the same or similar problem to everyone else. I turned off the screen and set my nc aside for a few minutes, then it would no longer boot. Screen just stayed black and was completely unresponsive to any input. Working my way through some troubleshooting, I plugged the nc into my computer via USB and it booted into CM7 instantly. I have no idea why this happened, but it's working fine now.

[Q] Eight Failed Boots not working

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
Sent from one of those missing Droids

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.

[Q]Nothing will boot from eMMC

Hi all,
I was hoping someone would be able to help me out as I am seemingly in a bad situation. I received my Nook 2 days ago and rooted and tried out a few different ROMS to get a feel for the choices. In any case, for some reason my Nook no longer appears to be booting anything from internal memory. Any ROM I have tried (stock included) has failed to boot, but I can get the Nook to load CWR with the memory card in. When I say failed to boot, I mean a black screen. Like no response from the device at all.
Please if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated, I really dont know what else to do or what the problem is.
Thanks,
Michaelangelo

mad1100 said:
Hi all,
I was hoping someone would be able to help me out as I am seemingly in a bad situation. I received my Nook 2 days ago and rooted and tried out a few different ROMS to get a feel for the choices. In any case, for some reason my Nook no longer appears to be booting anything from internal memory. Any ROM I have tried (stock included) has failed to boot, but I can get the Nook to load CWR with the memory card in. When I say failed to boot, I mean a black screen. Like no response from the device at all.
Please if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated, I really dont know what else to do or what the problem is.
Thanks,
Michaelangelo
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Get the nook restore to stock zip and the boot restore zip. Flash those both back to it. Also, make sure you are wiping, System, then Data, then Boot beforehand. And wipe both Dalvik and cache. Nook Color is nearly impossible to hard-brick (in the sense of being unable to recover from it).

mad1100 said:
Hi all,
I was hoping someone would be able to help me out as I am seemingly in a bad situation. I received my Nook 2 days ago and rooted and tried out a few different ROMS to get a feel for the choices. In any case, for some reason my Nook no longer appears to be booting anything from internal memory. Any ROM I have tried (stock included) has failed to boot, but I can get the Nook to load CWR with the memory card in. When I say failed to boot, I mean a black screen. Like no response from the device at all.
Please if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated, I really dont know what else to do or what the problem is.
Thanks,
Michaelangelo
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This happens because the boot partition is corrupt. This is usually the result of you formatting the SD card with CM7. Due to a bug, when you try to format the SD card, it will wipe out the boot partion as well. Just restore the boot partion and you will be OK.

neozen21 said:
This happens because the boot partition is corrupt. This is usually the result of you formatting the SD card with CM7. Due to a bug, when you try to format the SD card, it will wipe out the boot partion as well. Just restore the boot partion and you will be OK.
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Is there a way to do that when the screen is not working?
An automated install or do we just push buttons as per the same task on another nook and hope

Okay, so I understand that the problem is that CM7 changed around the boot partition files, that makes sense as that was the last thing I could get running on internal memory. When I was flashing HC v4 to EMMC I also flashed a boot repair, and that still did not work. I cannot seem to find a boot repair file for stock, where do I get that.
Sorry for the noob questions, and I am definitely trying to use search the forums for answers before i ask these questions!

We have life!!! I found a stock boot restore file and it turned out to work, I am back to stock again. Man this is sure a learning experience. I have been flashing my Evo for a while now, but the nook is a different beast all together.
Thanks for your help all, I think I am good from here on out!

chrysilis said:
Is there a way to do that when the screen is not working?
An automated install or do we just push buttons as per the same task on another nook and hope
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You get a microSD card with CWR and the both .zip files for the stock 1.1 and the boot partion, then pick install .zip from SD card and flash both files. When done, take out the microSD card and your NC should be able to boot normally...

neozen21 said:
You get a microSD card with CWR and the both .zip files for the stock 1.1 and the boot partion, then pick install .zip from SD card and flash both files. When done, take out the microSD card and your NC should be able to boot normally...
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And if the screen isn't turning on but SD cards seem to boot?
chrysilis said:
Is there a way to do that when the screen is not working?
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The solution I am trying now is to leave it for a few days so tonight/tomorrow we'll see if it comes back!

chrysilis said:
And if the screen isn't turning on but SD cards seem to boot?
The solution I am trying now is to leave it for a few days so tonight/tomorrow we'll see if it comes back!
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How do you know it's booting into CWR on the SD if the screen is not working?
If your screen is not working when booting from a SD card, then.. maybe there is something wrong with your nook???

neozen21 said:
How do you know it's booting into CWR on the SD if the screen is not working?
If your screen is not working when booting from a SD card, then.. maybe there is something wrong with your nook???
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If I boot nooter 0.2 then the USB plug goes green which apparently indicates booting. Oh and OMAP3630 shows up for a second on booting too.
Thing is I didn't do anything to break the screen and there is no physical damage to the unit. so it's just weird

chrysilis said:
If I boot nooter 0.2 then the USB plug goes green which apparently indicates booting. Oh and OMAP3630 shows up for a second on booting too.
Thing is I didn't do anything to break the screen and there is no physical damage to the unit. so it's just weird
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I thought I had the same issue because of the screen being blank. That said it is highly unlikely your hardware ( ie screen ) is bad. I was able to get mine working correctly last night doing what is mentioned above. However to get it to work right booting into CWR via a bootable sdcard I had to make a new bootable sdcard from the one I had. Not sure if something was corrupted on the card I was trying to use or what. But as soon as I made a new bootable sdcard and put it in the device and powered on it boot right up to CWR off the sdcard like I needed so I could fix it. So my suggestion if you can is take a totally different sdard fro the one you have been using and make a new bootable sdcard and give it a shot.
BTW with no card in the device hold the power key down for about 20 secs to make sure it is fully powered off. Even tho your screen is blank does NOT mean it is fully powered off as I learned real fast last night when I tried working on mine. I thought it was off from the night before but it must not have been because I put a bootable HC sdcard in it and when I plugged it in I got a msg saying battery to low to power on plz try again in 15 mins. About 10 mins later I came back and it was finally powering itself on and booting into HC off the sdcard. So I let it fully charge and then start playing with it to finally get it back up and running again.