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My Boot will not boot no matter what I do. I encountered this issue after flashing to phiremod v4, which worked beautifully until I decided to free up some storage space on my SD card and format it through the Nook. The next time I tried to boot, I got the dreaded black screen.
I've burned Clockwork Recovery (4gb v .7) onto the SD card and copied the Nook Color V1.1.0_r2 rom (found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=932145). From there, I formatted the data, system, and cache, then installed the rom from the SD card. Everything went through smoothly, until I rebooted the Nook (with the SD card out). Nothing happens! The Nook simply will not reboot without the SD card inserted. Even if it boots (with the SD card) it just sends me back to Clockwork Recovery.
I also tried recovering the Nook through ADB (using the steps found here http://mrm3.net/2011/01/24/113/). I install everything, but I cannot locate the ADB device in the device manager. I've even used the .bat file to auto installs ADB, but it is still not found in the device manager.
I've read that it is nearly impossible to brick a Nook, but I'm not sure what else to try. I'm a Android noob, so please bear with me. TIA!
Fairly certain I read about a bug with formatting the SD card on the NC, that it would format the internal memory instead. I would imagine you will need to flash a new image to the internal memory (should be stock image floating around here somewhere).
No worries, you are most likely NOT bricked. There are hundreds of posts about people thinking they bricked their device.
First thing is first, IF YOU READ THE POST IT SPECIFICALLY STATES DO NOT FORMAT THE SDCARD USING THE NOOK AS IT WIPES THE /BOOT
My suggestion to you is do some research on XDA there are PLENTY of posts about "unbricking" your device.
I have only seen 1 nook be bricked, and it was hardly bricked because it could be booted from an SDCard.
Try following the instructions here to return back to the stock OS:
http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
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No worries, you are most likely NOT bricked. There are hundreds of posts about people thinking they bricked their device.
First thing is first, IF YOU READ THE POST IT SPECIFICALLY STATES DO NOT FORMAT THE SDCARD USING THE NOOK AS IT WIPES THE /BOOT
My suggestion to you is do some research on XDA there are PLENTY of posts about "unbricking" your device.
I have only seen 1 nook be bricked, and it was hardly bricked because it could be booted from an SDCard.
Try following the instructions here to return back to the stock OS:
http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
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Yeah, I realize that was a big no no. I am unable to perform any of the steps in the link you provided because my nook doesn't even reach the 'Welcome to the future of reading' screen. Also, I can't try method 2 because ADP is not working properly.
I should mention that I also tried samuelhalff's first method to no avail. Any other ideas?
So you CAN boot from an SDCard correct? Only way to boot again is to flash the boot file...
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So you CAN boot from an SDCard correct? Only way to boot again is to flash the boot file...
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Yes, I can boot (to Clockwork Recovery) if the SD card is inserted and the power cord is inserted and I hold the power button for 10 seconds. If I install a rom from the SD card, doesn't it flash the boot file? If not, how do I flash the boot file?
I know you said you tried Sams method, I would re-read how to flash his boot repartition file found on his froyo on emmc thread
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Yes, I can boot (to Clockwork Recovery) if the SD card is inserted and the power cord is inserted and I hold the power button for 10 seconds. If I install a rom from the SD card, doesn't it flash the boot file? If not, how do I flash the boot file?
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Here's the link to the boot file. I did the same thing not long ago (formatted SD from within CM7) and I fixed it by flashing this file to repartition the boot.
It's the last link in the OP of this thread (repartition-boot-with-stock.zip):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
If that doesn't work, he has a couple of restore to stock methods in that thread as well.
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Here's the link to the boot file. I did the same thing not long ago (formatted SD from within CM7) and I fixed it by flashing this file to repartition the boot.
It's the last link in the OP of this thread (repartition-boot-with-stock.zip):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
If that doesn't work, he has a couple of restore to stock methods in that thread as well.
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YES! This did it! I missed this link somehow. Many thanks to all that helped.
Ok, now I'm stuck on the screen that says "Contains Reader Mobile technology by Adobe Systems Incorporated". Did this happen to you C Dippa? I'm going to try a reset and see if that helps.
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Ok, now I'm stuck on the screen that says "Contains Reader Mobile technology by Adobe Systems Incorporated". Did this happen to you C Dippa? I'm going to try a reset and see if that helps.
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Nope...it just booted up, may have taken a little longer.
Any luck with it?
Yeah, I had to do the 8 failed boot attempts to bypass that screen, then re-root. Now, I'm all set! Phiremod is installed again.
Glad to have helped! Happy nooting!
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Hopefully there is hope for me. I've recently discovered the wonderful world of rooting and rooted my nook successfully. After root I loaded ROM Manager and started the process of backing up with the clockworkmod. (I'm very new to rooting so I'm not sure exactly where I went wrong). Somewhere in the process I got stuck in a menu loop in clockwork. I trolled the forums and attempted several things including CRW removal and Nook complete restore. I'm not sure I attempted them correctly as I was still in the CRW menu screen. Now, my nook will not even turn on plugged in or otherwise. Any help (and please make it detailed step by step) would be greatly appreciated. I'll keep my eye close to this thread throughout the evening. Thank you in advance for helping out a new rooter. ChipD
can't really help other then say that your nook is fine... just keep looking at all the 'bricking' threads in this forum. there are plenty to choose from.
Try this.
Somewhere in the process I got stuck in a menu loop in clockwork. I trolled the forums and attempted several things including CRW removal and Nook complete restore. I'm not sure I attempted them correctly as I was still in the CRW menu screen. Now, my nook will not even turn on plugged in or otherwise. Any help (and please make it detailed step by step) would be greatly appreciated. I'll keep my eye close to this thread throughout the evening. Thank you in advance for helping out a new rooter. ChipD[/QUOTE]
I had the same issue and this worked for me. next time you flash CWR be sure you do a normal reboot B4 doing a reboot to recovery. just flash this...
CWR-removal-rootsafe I cant attach the URL but google it and it will come up in the second choice. let me know...
Thanks jarussillo. I found the file you refereed to and have it on my computer. Please give me a step by step on how to flash it without being able to see anything on my screen. I don't have any backup, all I have is a formatted sd card. Do I put the unzipped file on the card, or do I unzip the files and drop those on the card? Thanks for being willing to help.
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Thanks jarussillo. I found the file you refereed to and have it on my computer. Please give me a step by step on how to flash it without being able to see anything on my screen. I don't have any backup, all I have is a formatted sd card. Do I put the unzipped file on the card, or do I unzip the files and drop those on the card? Thanks for being willing to help.
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You will need to burn a CWR SD card, then drop the zip file into the root of the sd card, then Boot off the SD card, (You might have to hold the power button down for 20secs before you will see it boot) then Flash the Zip file from CWR.
Also read this thread. FULLY read it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
just flash the the CWR to your sd card you can search it on the site.
AWESOME! That article looks like exactly what I needed. I knew it was out there somewhere, I just couldn't find it. THANKS!!!! I'll update (hopefully with success) when I'm done.
Well, no success tonight. I downloaded all the stuff mentioned in the previous article, but the rootpack & the clockwork don't download in a zipped folder (like I even observed in a youtube video). They download as a GZ file. I'm not sure what to do with that because I can't decompress it and send it into the disk imager. What am I missing here? I'll check back in the am, thanks.
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Well, no success tonight. I downloaded all the stuff mentioned in the previous article, but the rootpack & the clockwork don't download in a zipped folder (like I even observed in a youtube video). They download as a GZ file. I'm not sure what to do with that because I can't decompress it and send it into the disk imager. What am I missing here? I'll check back in the am, thanks.
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http://www.7-zip.org/
this can decompress pretty much anything, Plus its free and open source
If I remember right that gz file needs to be unpacked so you can get the img file and then write the img with windisk32 to the SD that has cwr on it. But I may be mistaken pretty new to this stuff to
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What operating system are you using?
Be aware that in the rooting/CWM/ROM world you basically have ROMs and installable zips, you need to be aware of how to handle each.
If windows, you should be using winRAR to unzip image files for flashing to microSD. If the compressed file contains files and folders its most likely an installabe zip thats to be copied to a microSD AS IS and installed using clockwork recovery. If the compressed fiile has an .img file in it, its a ROM and must be burned to a microSD (effectively erasing said microSD) and then inserted into the nook while its off.
For ROMs as described above, uncompress the .img files to your hdd and then use win32disk imager to burn the .img to the microSD using a usb adapter.
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pretty much burn CWR onto a uSD card then put a rom onto the uSD card in the .zip format.
put in the uSD card, plug into PC, hold the on button for a while then you'll hear the PC do the "usb device connected" noise, keep holding that power button until it powers on
most problems can be solved by writing any recent CWR onto a uSD card, the great news is that the nook color's boot priority is straight to the uSD which means any problem on the emmc isn't too big as it'll boot to uSD first
good morning all. I'm gonna get this figured out today, I feel it! Muzzy, I'm running Windows 7 64 bit.
Ok, here's where I'm at. I see the endroad (meaning I understand the steps needed for recovery) and have all the tools I need except for a proper CWR file, which seems to be the most important part. The file I downloaded from http://legacyschool.us.to/nookdev/clockwork/0.7/ (took me about half an hour) does not give me a folder with extractable files as seen in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B31y_lyHIA (jump to 45 secs.). Instead it gives me a single gz file that is not compressed. It's not runnable through win 32 diskimager. Putting that file on an sd card and trying to boot my nook with it has no effect.
Edit: Ok, WinZip to the rescue. I was able to extract the file with WinZip and have it cooking in the disk imager now! WOOHOO!
Edit 2: All seems to be installing correctly, fingers crossed...
Getting closer, I had to use the repartition. Now it turns back on and I get the big "n". It's ocupying my entire day, but I'm actually enjoying this. I've learned a lot! Flahing Nookcolor 1.1 now. Hopefully that will finish me off.
She's BACK! Thanks for all the help. I never would have found the right info without people taking the time to point in the right direction. You guys are great!
So I was going to try and change roms. And I couldn't boot into recovery, so I made a recovery bootable sd card. Me in my glorious thinking decided I would just use it to install the internal recovery and my rom.
Once the sdcard booted into recovery I did a system/data/cache wipe. then installed clockworkmod. It succeeded, so I went to the rom I had on my card. It failed. I said I know, I'll power down, take the sdcard put cm on it and try again. wrong.
Now I can't boot into recovery on either an sdcard or without and turning on the nook regularly flashes loading and goes to the page that says android with the flashing underscore.
so as far as I can tell I have no operating system, because I wiped system. and I'm not sure what is up with my recovery.
I'm looking at this page,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
but I'm not sure how I would flash the zip if I can't boot into anything?
any ideas would be appreciated
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So I was going to try and change roms. And I couldn't boot into recovery, so I made a recovery bootable sd card. Me in my glorious thinking decided I would just use it to install the internal recovery and my rom.
Once the sdcard booted into recovery I did a system/data/cache wipe. then installed clockworkmod. It succeeded, so I went to the rom I had on my card. It failed. I said I know, I'll power down, take the sdcard put cm on it and try again. wrong.
Now I can't boot into recovery on either an sdcard or without and turning on the nook regularly flashes loading and goes to the page that says android with the flashing underscore.
so as far as I can tell I have no operating system, because I wiped system. and I'm not sure what is up with my recovery.
I'm looking at this page,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
but I'm not sure how I would flash the zip if I can't boot into anything?
any ideas would be appreciated
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Try Re-burning the Newest CWR to to your SD card, maybe your SD card has gotten corrupted
CWR 3.0.1.0 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971197
Also http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
trying out your steps and I think I've realized the problem... but I can't figure out why it's doing what it's doing. I can't seem to correctly use dd to burn the image to the sdcard anymore... it worked the first 3 times I did with no problem. But now it's not working...
is there a certain format these cards need to be in? fat32, ext2/3/4?
constellanation said:
trying out your steps and I think I've realized the problem... but I can't figure out why it's doing what it's doing. I can't seem to correctly use dd to burn the image to the sdcard anymore... it worked the first 3 times I did with no problem. But now it's not working...
is there a certain format these cards need to be in? fat32, ext2/3/4?
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what OS are you using? Linux? I don't know anything DD in Linux sorry.
I have been using Windows and Win32DiskImager
I think they are Fat32 images.
Maybe try Reseting the computer, and trying again.
Yeah it keeps writing phantom images to the directory that is supposed to be where my sdcard is located... and not on to the sdcard itself...
and yeah it's linux... I'm baffled... I think I will try a restart not only on my computer but on my day...
if any linux users have any advice on writing this image I'd appreciate... goodnight all I will try again tomorrow at some point
thanks for the help though!
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Yeah it keeps writing phantom images to the directory that is supposed to be where my sdcard is located... and not on to the sdcard itself...
and yeah it's linux... I'm baffled... I think I will try a restart not only on my computer but on my day...
if any linux users have any advice on writing this image I'd appreciate... goodnight all I will try again tomorrow at some point
thanks for the help though!
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Make sure your Burning to the device directory and not the mount folder. (ie: /dev/sdc not /media/cardstick )
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well that was what I was doing wrong writing the image. However the nook still won't boot from them...
It just goes to the dark screen that says android in light blue with a blinking cursor at the bottom left of the screen...
constellanation said:
well that was what I was doing wrong writing the image. However the nook still won't boot from them...
It just goes to the dark screen that says android in light blue with a blinking cursor at the bottom left of the screen...
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well at least you boot Partition is intact, but sounds like you have no system or data partition.
Its very odd that the Nook wont boot off the SD card, it should look for that first in the boot Process, all i can think of is that your SD card is still not right.
I tried two different cards. The clockwork 4gb version and the 8gb version. Both looked right with the appropriate files. :/
So I don't think, though it's still a possibility, that it's the card itself
I think in the morning I'll try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870]
In combination with this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11535969&postcount=151
Specifically the reverting to aosp part. To tired to deal with cli right now.
Edit: if that fails I may try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
therealguppy said:
Try Re-burning the Newest CWR to to your SD card, maybe your SD card has gotten corrupted
CWR 3.0.1.0 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971197
Also http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
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Silly question as I haven't been able to find the info as of yet. Could you explain how we can go about burning the newest CWR ( ie 3.0.1.0 ) so we have a bootable sdcard running it ( 3.0.1.0) instead of the older 3.0.0.6 that all the burnable imgs are currently. I looked threw the thread and I don't see any instructions or talk about how to update a bootable sdcard. It only seems to discuss updating the recovery of the eMMC using ADB or the *.zip file that is linked. Any input,advice, or link would be greatly appreciated. Peace
I must say that the monster rootpack is amazing, and I am up and running
seriously when all else fails (or if you just want to cut down to it) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
anyway problem solved, running cm7 rc1 right now!
I'm a noob with not enough privilages to post over in the developer's forum, so posting here.
I've successfully imaged and booted to CM7 using verygreen's project:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
Next step was to try adding/installing gapps and using recover. I've tried a few different times doing a few different things, but all end up rebooting (with SD in the NC) to the original boot of the NC, as if out of the box. I get the hand going over to the android and having to "Set Language" and wifi.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong and it looks like others got it to work.
Any help?
Have you actually booted into CM7? The nook boots first to the SD card, so if you can't boot now into CM7 that means that something has changed on the SD card. In other words, on boot the nook looks for something useful (like a bootable OS) on the card and if it can't find it boots to internal (original B&N OS).
So, do a normal power up and see if you boot into CM7 on the sd card. If so, see below about booting in recovery (once you've added the google files). If not, something's amiss with the image on the card.
YOu may be having a problem booting into recovery -- this is pretty common. It can be tricky timing the release of the buttons. Follow the directions on verygreen's post carefully. Push the N button first, then power, count off about 6 seconds and make sure that you see the message before releasing. Took me a few tries to get the recovery screen instead of booting normally.
I can tell you that I've done this a few times and it does indeed work. The only tricky part is timing to button thing when booting into recovery.
Yep, I did boot into CM7... The wallpaper changed and there were new icons, of which I can't remember at the moment.
I know what you are saying about entering recovery mode... I think I got that set. I can see when entering recovery mode, as the penquin icon is shown and then all the messages come up, including expanding the zip files.
My problem is getting the gapps included. I've tried just copying over the gapps zip file and do recovery with that. I've tried copying both the CM7 nightly and the gapps zips and do recovery. I also noticed the instructions:
•Get u-boot.zip file from attachment in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=153
•Unpack the u-boot.bin file and put it onto parttion 1 of the SD card instead of the one there.
•Rename file named uRecImage on the first partition to uRecImg (doh!)
•Get this uRamdisk file, rename it to uRecRam and then put the result to the 1st partition on the uSD card instead of the file with the same name there
I've also done that... still boots to as if it is a brand new, out of the box Nook. I take it that means the SD is messed up. So I'm doing something wrong in how to get the gapps on.
Sounds like the easiest way for you is to start over.
Re-image your card with verygreen's 1.1 from the beginning of his post.
Then download the version of CM7 you want (verygreen's or rc4 or whatever)
add this .zip to the sd card, download gapps and also add this to the sd card.
Insert into nook and boot.
You have to put these zips on the sd card BEFORE you boot into CM7 the first time. This is why you have to re-image.
This is what I did and everything worked great. Skip the gapps login until you have wifi setup of course and everything should be fine.
Yup, sounds like danbutter has it right. I know how frustrating this is, but it really is worth it.
You may have problems prepping your SD card to re-image because of partitioning. One way to start with a really clean slate is to download Paragon Partition Manager (the free addition) and totally wipe all the existing partitions. Windows disk manager won't do it.
robedney said:
You may have problems prepping your SD card to re-image because of partitioning. One way to start with a really clean slate is to download Paragon Partition Manager (the free addition) and totally wipe all the existing partitions. Windows disk manager won't do it.
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I don't know exactly what it is with this, but I have never had this issue and I have re flashed a couple sd cards many many times playing with this and all I have ever done was select the new image and write it to the card.
Is this something to do with certain card readers or what?
I'm using a five year old HP laptop and its built in card reader.
Just curious
I want to install CM11 onto my external SDcard, not touching the B&N stock OS or rooting it in any way , so as not to void the warranty. #1 is this possible?
I built the SDcard, creating partitions: BOOT (0x0c FAT32 LBA & set Active),SYSTEM, DATA partitions.
I downloaded Succulent's "cm_ovation_11.0_02JUL2014_HD_SDC" file, unzipped it and copied the 6 files from it (MLO first)
Booted the HD+ but it didn't boot to sd,-- only did the normal Nook boot and hung at 99% loading the nook OS.
I then saw something about needing to install CWM Recovery first and boot that, so I located a download for CWM, but found it contains the same files as Succulent's "cm_ovation......" file (MLO, etc.). So if I were to extract that to the BOOT partition, I'd overwrite what I extracted from his zip.
So I'm missing some pieces to the trick....
Try using bokbokan's version and instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2583952
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Try using bokbokan's version and instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2583952
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Thank you, but I had customized my partitions, and was hoping to stay with them, versus overwriting them with an image someone made that has pre-picked partitions. That is, unless somehow I can resize the partitions he made (and at which point in the process?) On mine I had 4 partitions. the last one was just an NTFS one, 6GB, I was hoping to keep available for just general storage, not necessarily for KitKat's use.
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=49007593&postcount=84 for pointers on creating CM11 SDcard with customized partition sizing. You should be able to create and maintain a 4th partition (but you'd need to figure out how to mount the partition so as to make it accessible to Android and/or your PC OS).
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Ok, I must be missing some simple step.
In that link Digimax sent me, I believe I followed all steps. I ended up with these files on the BOOT partition (as seen in windows):
The 6 files extracted from sdcard-ovation-cm11.0-v1.img
pa_gapps-modular-mini-4.4.4-20141121-signed
cm-11-20140804-UNOFFICIAL-bok-ovation
a folder called LOST.DIR (not sure what that's from)
I choose "Boot to CWM Recovery" and I first did a backup. Then I selected "Install ZIP" then "Choose zip from sdcard" & I see
/sdcard/
- 0/
- clockworkmod/
That's it. Nothing else. Selecting either one of these displays no zip files. What am I doing wrong? In that post, step 4 it mentions "pair" of zip files. I assume though the 2nd item in the "pair" is the Gapps zip. Cuz for HD+ all I see is one file: cm-11-20140804-UNOFFICIAL-bok-ovation. (it doesn't have "sgt7" in the name anymore.) I assume I don't need the one for the regular HD model.
baytee said:
Ok, I must be missing some simple step.
In that link Digimax sent me, I believe I followed all steps. I ended up with these files on the BOOT partition (as seen in windows):
The 6 files extracted from sdcard-ovation-cm11.0-v1.img
pa_gapps-modular-mini-4.4.4-20141121-signed
cm-11-20140804-UNOFFICIAL-bok-ovation
a folder called LOST.DIR (not sure what that's from)
I choose "Boot to CWM Recovery" and I first did a backup. Then I selected "Install ZIP" then "Choose zip from sdcard" & I see
/sdcard/
- 0/
- clockworkmod/
That's it. Nothing else. Selecting either one of these displays no zip files. What am I doing wrong?
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It does not appear that you've made any mistake. It's possible that bokbokan's CWM recovery has changed since I wrote up that guide nearly a year ago (and shortly thereafter have gone onto flashing/running CM11 on emmc and thus would have missed any such change).
One possible solution you might consider trying is to download or copy the ROM and Gapps zip files to your HD+ user-media partition, then while in CWM recovery menu select "... zip files from emmc" and browse to where the ROM/Gapps zip files are located.
In that post, step 4 it mentions "pair" of zip files. I assume though the 2nd item in the "pair" is the Gapps zip.
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Yes, that's correct.
bok build install behaves super flaky for me
One possible solution you might consider trying is to download or copy the ROM and Gapps zip files to your HD+ user-media partition, then while in CWM recovery menu select "... zip files from emmc" and browse to where the ROM/Gapps zip files are located.
I got the sdcard to boot after many reboots and had to keep hard powering off (cutting it off) if the NOOK name displayed too long, (where I knew it was going to boot Nook OS) It booted to CWM, I did a backup, then installed the zips (had to put on internal memory as you said, but even this wasn't easy, It gave some weird error I don't recall,maybe about something "has stopped", so I ended up having to copy it from ES File Explorer after booting to Nook OS) Then I repeated the boot trick as mentioned, backed it up, then installed the 2 zips. I rebooted, got walkthrough of 1st time setup. This is where it got weird. Screens would advance on their own, be shifted halfway off the screen, had a long delay or else wouldn't respond to my clicks, would power off (and wouldn't power on until MANY presses of the power button) or reboot on it's own during the setup. I finally got thru setup and then after booting to Android, it would still be very sluggish, and still powering off on it's own and being difficult to turn on. And it continued to be unreliable to boot to Android, sometimes booting to Nook OS still (even though some in forums say once they got it to boot to Android it would forever after.)
Maybe I need to try a different build. Who else has a well-known, reliable? build besides Succulent? (even though with his it wouldn't boot to CWM but hang at 99% forever on Nook OS loading). If there's no others, maybe I'll give his another try since I had some luck getting CWM to boot with the above trick.
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This is where it got weird. Screens would advance on their own, be shifted halfway off the screen, had a long delay or else wouldn't respond to my clicks, would power off (and wouldn't power on until MANY presses of the power button) or reboot on it's own during the setup. I finally got thru setup and then after booting to Android, it would still be very sluggish, and still powering off on it's own and being difficult to turn on. And it continued to be unreliable to boot to Android, sometimes booting to Nook OS still (even though some in forums say once they got it to boot to Android it would forever after.)
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What brand and class of SD card are you using to run CM?
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even though with his it wouldn't boot to CWM but hang at 99% forever on Nook OS loading
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FWIW, every time that I have had the problem of stock ROM boot-up stuck at 99% it was always because the stock ROM got corrupted due to some unexpected errors in the creation/update of the SD-based CM ROM image, and the only way I was able to recover was to restore stock ROM from backup copy.
I have a PNY 16gb class4 (C16G china 1308PW3599P)
The problem of it hanging at 99% only happened with Succulents, not Bokbokans. As far as the Nook OS being corrupt , I have doubts of that since without the SDcard it ALWAYS boots fine to the nook OS.
baytee said:
I have a PNY 16gb class4 (C16G china 1308PW3599P)
The problem of it hanging at 99% only happened with Succulents, not Bokbokans. As far as the Nook OS being corrupt , I have doubts of that since without the SDcard it ALWAYS boots fine to the nook OS.
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The problem of stock booting to 99% and hanging with an SD inserted has to do with the properties of the SD, not corruption of stock. Stock will always hang if the SD has more than 3 partitions. Most of Bokbokan's SDs are set up to only have 3 just for that reason. I don't know how many the succulent SD has, I would bet more than 3.
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Stock will always hang if the SD has more than 3 partitions. Most of Bokbokan's SDs are set up to only have 3 just for that reason. I don't know how many the succulent SD has, I would bet more than 3.
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Succulent's CM SD image for the HD+ only has 3 partitions.
I WAS creating a 4th partition & was unaware it was an issue so thanks. I was doing customized partition (not using their premade sd image). But my whole goal is booting to sdcard, not to nook os.....and the 99% Id assumed was after it failed to boot to sdcard & instead had gone on to boot nook os. But Just in case it helps me boot CM11 on sdcard, I'll try it with 3. Thanks for that tip.
actually I WAS creating a 4th partition & was unaware it was an issue so thanks. I was doing customized partitions (not using their premade sd image). But my whole goal is booting to sdcard, not to nook os.....and the 99% Id assumed was after it failed to boot to sdcard & instead had gone on to boot nook os. But just in case it helps me boot CM11 on sdcard, I'll try it with 3. Thanks for that tip
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actually I WAS creating a 4th partition & was unaware it was an issue so thanks.
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FWIW, I took succulent's pre-made SD image for CM11 (https://goo.im/devs/succulent/ovation/cyanogenmod/image/cm_ovation_11.0_24DEC2013_HD_SDC_IMG.7z), burned it to a (Sandisk class 4) 8GB SD card. The image has 3 partitions which succulent had sized to fit a 2GB SD card; I added a 4th partition (type: FAT32, name: /media) to fill the leftover space of my 8GB card (and reset the boot (1st) partition's type/flag to ensure that it's still bootable). The resulted CM11 card with the extra 4th partition booted up just fine on my HD+.
So, having an extra 4th partition (or, in general, more than 3 partitions) does not prevent a SD-based CM image for the HD+ from booting successfully -- just as one by virtue of logics would have expected.
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FWIW, I took succulent's pre-made SD image for CM11 (https://goo.im/devs/succulent/ovation/cyanogenmod/image/cm_ovation_11.0_24DEC2013_HD_SDC_IMG.7z), burned it to a (Sandisk class 4) 8GB SD card. The image has 3 partitions which succulent had sized to fit a 2GB SD card; I added a 4th partition (type: FAT32, name: /media) to fill the leftover space of my 8GB card (and reset the boot (1st) partition's type/flag to ensure that it's still bootable). The resulted CM11 card with the extra 4th partition booted up just fine on my HD+.
So, having an extra 4th partition (or, in general, more than 3 partitions) does not prevent a SD-based CM image for the HD+ from booting successfully -- just as one by virtue of logics would have expected.
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No it does not prevent it from booting to the SD, but it does prevent stock from booting successfully if the SD is inserted in the slot. It will hang at 99%.
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Verygreen's CM 11 SD build of 11/29/2014 for the HD+ works very well for me. First boot does take awhile so don't give up too fast.
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