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i am really new to this g1 root stuff, i have cupcake 1.5, and i see that alot of the custom builds have some pretty cool stuff. but am wondering if they are better than cupcake, how do i go about changing, and also i have no idea how to "root" my phone, so if anyone has time to explain in detail how to do this, i would really appreciate it. i need to know step by step how to go from cupcake to jf1.51ADP(best ive seen) without making it look hard...lol
Step 1. Search.
Step 2. Read through the 2534 threads that cover this exact question.
Example: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
here ya go
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=xda+how+to+root
http://allshadow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5692&p=40417#p40417
Info on the builds
litterally follow the instructions, step by step without missing anything out
I only moved across from 1.5 to jv1.5 adp last week and thought it would be hard to do, but actually found it very easy once i read the instructions, downloaded everything first, and then went through it step by step...
walkerx said:
litterally follow the instructions, step by step without missing anything out
I only moved across from 1.5 to jv1.5 adp last week and thought it would be hard to do, but actually found it very easy once i read the instructions, downloaded everything first, and then went through it step by step...
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yup same thing i did when i got my phone at the beginning of the year.. i thought it was so much to do, which it was. i wanted to make my phone better then the IPhone.. so i read, read without much question asked.
xda dream fourm was clean and had only 3 pages of thread when i i first joined.
anddep said:
yup same thing i did when i got my phone at the beginning of the year.. i thought it was so much to do, which it was. i wanted to make my phone better then the IPhone.. so i read, read without much question asked.
xda dream fourm was clean and had only 3 pages of thread when i i first joined.
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since then already read on how to change bootimages, got the files working under vista64 and updated the images, then found out doing themes is same as updating firmware and as long as remember to use theme for build it shouldn't be too hard to do..
Only thing I've noticed is down to about 46mb compared to normal 1.5, but would guess this is because of all the other features so not too bothered about it
Can I do all of this with a 1g sd card or do I need to get larger one first
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Can I do all of this with a 1g sd card or do I need to get larger one first
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yes u can, but what do u think?
i had to grab a 4gig for my music, mp4's, wallpaper, and APP2SD. i need to get an 8gig so i can add more mp4's.
i was lucky i got an 8gb plus standard 2gb when i got my phone via t-mobile uk. Only thing is the 8gb is a class 2 card, so just ordered a class 6 with adapter for £20, could have paid about £12 more for a 16gb with adapter (may still get it) as daughter as DS so should work in that
getting read to just swich to one of the hero roms at this point but figured before i do i'll see if any of these can be fixed.
This all started right shortly after the 1.51 update
First of all, I've wipped the phone and reinstalled twice now and left the battery out and did formats and tried new SD cards and all that and these are the problems i'm having.
-Camera will not save once finished. It takes the picture but it never saves to the SD card.
-Screen randomly changes orientation by itself when the phone is not moving at all. on a table
-Lots of random crashes
-and the worst. Certain apps will only download 50% of the file size when i download them making them never work, If this happens it's impossible to ever download it. Even after wiping and reloading the phone the same thing happened again. It also happens in updates as well. Killed mybackup pro and i had to go download it off rapidshare because i needed to make backups and the market download would never download properly.
So basically, is there any way to fix all these problems or am i better off just going through everything and flashing to a new rom now.
very strange, never had problems on JF1.5 or 1.51. Have you tried flashing JF1.5? If that's still causing problems I'd try Cyanogens build. Sorry I can't help much, but you've already tried everything I would have suggested
yeah i've posted on a few forums and did everything there. then figured i might as well post here as a last resort.
I did try going back to 1.5 and things worked fine, then went to 1.51 again and everything happened again. I'd like to be running the latest release of any custom rom, and hero looks awesome so i'm thinking that if i can't fix this i'll just go through everything to upgrade to hero
There are no major changes from my JFv1.50 release, except a few new kernel modules.
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Hardly anything to update for, but whatever, have fun with hero Don't flash the SPL without the Radio (seems obvious but loads of people are spamming looking for a nonexistent solution to unbrick :< )
yeah i guess. Just me being myself wanting the lastest things. And don't worry i won't do that. been reading all about it for the last few days after i decided to give up on jfs 1.51
thanks!
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yeah i guess. Just me being myself wanting the lastest things. And don't worry i won't do that. been reading all about it for the last few days after i decided to give up on jfs 1.51
thanks!
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The Hero build certainly looks nice, but it might take you a while to get used to the slight slowness compared to the non-Rosie builds. Still... very pretty, keeps me mesmerized while I wait for my stuff to load... j/k
I've been using aHome for 5 months, i'm used to lag. lol.
nothing prepares you for Hero lag!!! just kidding, with linux-swap or compcache, its pretty snappy, but not comparable to non-hero builds.
well i'll find out soon enough. If it ends up being really bad then i may just go to some other ROM but i'm really hoping to have hero run good. Unfortountly i just have a normal Micro SD 2GB which has no class distinction so hopefully it'll be alright. If not i may have to go get another 8GB.
When i tried to format the last 8GB to get apps2sd working one program destroyed the card. shows up as 8MB now instead of GB. lol.
use cyns rom. most fastes freshes bestes cupcake ever. even tastes better. and his recovery also.
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well i'll find out soon enough. If it ends up being really bad then i may just go to some other ROM but i'm really hoping to have hero run good. Unfortountly i just have a normal Micro SD 2GB which has no class distinction so hopefully it'll be alright. If not i may have to go get another 8GB.
When i tried to format the last 8GB to get apps2sd working one program destroyed the card. shows up as 8MB now instead of GB. lol.
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there is a way to fix that on linux mentioned somewhere here on the forums...
it involves just writing 0's through the card
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there is a way to fix that on linux mentioned somewhere here on the forums...
it involves just writing 0's through the card
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yeah, unfortountly i have no machine with Linux and i have no spare room on my PC right now to do another partition. I'm using up like 750GB of about 850 total lol.
RE- massive ammount of problems on JFS 1.51
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yeah, unfortountly i have no machine with Linux and i have no spare room on my PC right now to do another partition. I'm using up like 750GB of about 850 total lol.
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You can run linix right from cd-rom.
UBUNTU
I too noticed alot of lagging in jf1.51 after moving all apps to sd so I took off Ahome and openhome and it runs alot better. I also need to get a class 6 sd card which will help speed things up. currious...does anyone know if there are limitations on the size of the sd card for G1? I looked on HTC's site and T-mobile's as well it just says micro sd 2.0.
didn't know that. guess i'm gonna have to grab that and try to fix my 8GB
and i thought that the G1 was capped at 8GB but i've seen people say they have 16GB cards so i guess you can go up to 16gb. which i think is the largest they make in micro sd
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didn't know that. guess i'm gonna have to grab that and try to fix my 8GB
and i thought that the G1 was capped at 8GB but i've seen people say they have 16GB cards so i guess you can go up to 16gb. which i think is the largest they make in micro sd
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Seen people with 32gb lol
damn why the hell would you even need 32GB thats just crazy.
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damn why the hell would you even need 32GB thats just crazy.
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Lol the more space you have the more you will fill it. its like buying a 160gb ipod.... ur never gonna use all of it
Is there any app available that can do this???
Nope.
But the request does come up enough that maybe I should write up something simple...
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Nope.
But the request does come up enough that maybe I should write up something simple...
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That would be awesome. A lot of times theres no specs on the speed of cards out there and your not really sure of what you are buying. It would be awesome.
excellent idea for an app. there are cards out there that do not list there class and cards that are listed as class 2 yet reach class 6 speeds.
cheers,
ryan
If you guys would give me a good algorithim to test read/write speeds I can work on it later tonight. It will probably take a few days a best.
But My idea is write a 2 meg file to the SD card, time it. Read the same file from the card, time it. Do a little math...present some numbers...
Now there are a lot of issues that could come into play with that method. Maybe repeat it 3 or 4 times just to see an average, but still its not the best that it could be.
What about just getting a microsd adapter or even mounting it to the computer. And then run a program that tests read/write speeds and use it on the card. like h2testw or something :/
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What about just getting a microsd adapter or even mounting it to the computer. And then run a program that tests read/write speeds and use it on the card. like h2testw or something :/
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1. On the phone is just cooler
2. On another thread about this topic there was debate about how accurate it would be to use an adapter or mounting as a drive. Adding cable seems to me like it could increase latency and you are no longer using the phones OS to test its internal stuff. ( i know its USB its faster than the card anyways, but see #1)
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If you guys would give me a good algorithim to test read/write speeds I can work on it later tonight. It will probably take a few days a best.
But My idea is write a 2 meg file to the SD card, time it. Read the same file from the card, time it. Do a little math...present some numbers...
Now there are a lot of issues that could come into play with that method. Maybe repeat it 3 or 4 times just to see an average, but still its not the best that it could be.
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You can start from there then trial and error. I was thinking you can take a look at any of the web SpeedTests in the market and learn something from there.
If you are on linux you can mount the phone and run
Code:
hdparm -tT /dev/sdd
where sdd is the phones drive(could be different on your machine)
That will give you a read speed but would would be limited by your USB read speed.
Hdparm is not built into android so you can't run it from the phone. There is one command that is built in that can measure speeds... However it is VERY VERY VERY dangerous so I hesitate to post it here but... dd
For the love of God do not mess with dd unless you read up on it and fully understand it. You could very easily measure write speed as well as read with dd but you would need an empty card because you would have to just blindly write to the blocks on the card. Doing which will at the bare minimum if you know what you are doing overwrite stuff on the card. Worst case is you mess up your partition table and have to re-partition. So I will only point you in the direction of dd and not post any code on how to use it for fear of some idiot entering the code and wiping their phone(although they would have to know how to use adb shell so they wouldn't be complete idiots)
This would be a useful app. I have a class 6 PNY SD and want to know how fast it really is.
Wow, what an AMAZING idea for an app. I would be more than happy to help and test!!!
Sooo
I am working on this guys.
I have gotten the program writing a file out to the SDcard. It just a randomly filled Byte Array being parsed to a file on the SDcard a few times, then reading it back off (Haven't got the reading part yet). I am running into some FC issues and also getting the timer to work is being a PITA. Android doesn't like my threads for some reason.
If I have time this week maybe I can get it done - or at least working, but I have some stuff going on that may slow down progress.
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Also if anyone that is not quite so Artisticly Challenged as I am wants to get me some drawables. I can use an Icon and a 320x480 image back ground (Let's try to keep it simple , I have seen some of your boot screens. lol)
Bump for moral support!
couldn't you just pop it into an adapter, and use HD Tune on your pc? http://www.hdtune.com/
I think the concept of the app request is so people don't have to turn off theory beloved heroes and pull battery just to get to the SD card, babe.
couldn't you just pop it into an adapter, and use HD Tune on your pc? http://www.hdtune.com/
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Kcarpenter, if you don't mind me asking what the status on this?
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Kcarpenter, if you don't mind me asking what the status on this?
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Well, it reads and writes a 6 meg file while spinning a wait cursor LOL.
Been working on final projects the past few weeks.
Might have something out 2 week of june.
As it stands now:
1)Need to setup a time mechanism - probably most acurate to grab a time stamp before the start and after the finish. Threads tend to get time messed up.
2)After the file is written and the time is figured out. Need to display the read/write results.
3)Then need to cleanup the file and ram after everything is done.
Also, I have seen the file only become half of the size it should be (3 mb)....which I think has something to do with UTF (Chars taking up 2 bytes)....but I am not sure yet.
And on top of that...who the hell knows if its accurate LOL.
But it's been interesting and fun.
haha, well thats good. keeps you interested then. i honestly dont kknow anything about programming and what not, so i cant help you there. buuuutttt when you finish and need testers i can help. well try anyways
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haha, well thats good. keeps you interested then. i honestly dont kknow anything about programming and what not, so i cant help you there. buuuutttt when you finish and need testers i can help. well try anyways
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I am really interested to see if it's even remotly accurate.
Seems like creating a 6 meg file and writing it out from memory to the card would surely test well... But there are a crap ton of things that could come into play and effect it.
I guess we'll only know if we try.
unless my phone explodes, i see nothing wrong with trying it out.
Hey guys, I finally rooted my Hero and I'm using the aosp 0.9.9.2 ROM.
I wanted to try out JIT, but it is disabled in the newest release. Can somebody please walk me through the ADB commands to do so? I thought I had seen something about that a long time ago, but I cannot for the life of me find that again.
I installed the android SDK and all. I start by opening cmd promt and locating the device. All of that has worked properly, but I don't know where to go from there. Can somebody help me from there? I just want to adb pull, edit a few of the lines (scroll speed, wifi search, and JIT) on my computer, and then adb push it back.. this shouldn't be that hard! Thanks in advance!
JIT is dangerous stuff. You can get hooked on it, and it's a downward spiral from there. I wouldn't try it, because you could become hooked and I was told that it's bad stuff.
JUST SAY NO.
p.s. hint: adb pull, notepad++, and adb push are your friends.
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JIT is dangerous stuff. You can get hooked on it, and it's a downward spiral from there. I wouldn't try it, because you could become hooked and I was told that it's bad stuff.
JUST SAY NO.
p.s. hint: adb pull, notepad++, and adb push are your friends.
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haha yeah I just want to try that and even other than JIT, there are a few other changes I'd like to make in the build.prop file. I have been playing with it for a while now and I can pull the file to my desktop, but now I'm just having trouble pushing it back because the system folder is read only.. Not sure how to get passed that, any help?
What do I think about JIT?
I love to JIT I used to JIT for almost a two months straight after I first read about it, never took a break. although as others said.. it can become addicting But I've been JIT free for over a month now and I've had no complaints about my phone's performance. Quite the contrary actually
As for the read only, before trying to push or pull make sure you do
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adb remount
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What do I think about JIT?
I love to JIT I used to JIT for almost a two months straight after I first read about it, never took a break. although as others said.. it can become addicting But I've been JIT free for over a month now and I've had no complaints about my phone's performance. Quite the contrary actually
As for the read only, before trying to push or pull make sure you do
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adb remount
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Thanks I forgot about "adb remount" that did the trick! My linpack scores went from 3.253 MFLOPS to 5.266 MFLOPS! Thats a pretty huge difference! Now I can go edit some other minor things in the build.prop to make the phone run even better because I'm greedy haha!
Any particular reason you stopped using JIT? Any side effects? What's so addicting about it?
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Any particular reason you stopped using JIT? Any side effects? What's so addicting about it?
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I stopped because I was having problems with the phone freezing on occasion while I was talking on the phone, but that's back when it first became an option for us to use. And even though, yes I did get higher benchmark scores, performance wise I didn't notice much of a difference if at all.
I'd say try it out for a week or two to see if you notice anything better or worse
And as for side-effects, addicting, etc. Read this quote
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Darchdroid is soo fast my girlfriend JITed before I even pulled out my hero!!!!
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When JIT hit the hero forums posts like this were relatively common and on the IRC we threw these kinda jokes around all the time That should help explain the remainder of my post haha
Hello, i've been one of those unfortunate members to own the nook with the faulty emmc. So it must be to no suprise that it gave out (on its own ; never installed 4.3). Now all my Nook gives me is the nook logo and then dies (due to lack of battery).
Anyhow I'm creating this thread mostly for those whose emmc is dead or dying. Hopefully in the comments we would have some sort of first aid kit for the case of emmc death/corruption. So my questions are as follows:
Firstly let me ask "Which rom would bring my nook back in working order?"
(I've been hearing that VG's external roms would work just fine, but in trying to use my sd loaded with the stock rom didn't work).
Secondly "is there a chance (now or in the future ) of recovering the data from the fried emmc?"
(for example folk from kindle fire's forum -that uses the same emmc part- use this method to recover: method )
Lastly "How to make use of the warranty for those outside US, any tips?"
(Living in the Uk, the replacement process has been a nightmare thus far, for the time being they refused to replace my nook because -simpy- I do not live in the US)
Thanks, and I hope this won't happen to many more.
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PS to mods: Please change the first word from the title to "dead" from "dear". I'm pretty sure I wrote "dead" but autocorrect changed it to "dear" (the complete opposing meaning)
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You can do it yourself. Just edit and go to the subject line and change it.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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You can do it yourself. Just edit and go to the subject line and change it.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Ah, oh, right. Thanks for the tip.
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Hello, i've been one of those unfortunate members to own the nook with the faulty emmc. So it must be to no suprise that it gave out (on its own ; never installed 4.3). Now all my Nook gives me is the nook logo and then dies (due to lack of battery).
Anyhow I'm creating this thread mostly for those whose emmc is dead or dying. Hopefully in the comments we would have some sort of first aid kit for the case of emmc death/corruption. So my questions are as follows:
Firstly let me ask "Which rom would bring my nook back in working order?"
(I've been hearing that VG's external roms would work just fine, but in trying to use my sd loaded with the stock rom didn't work).
Secondly "is there a chance (now or in the future ) of recovering the data from the fried emmc?"
(for example folk from kindle fire's forum -that uses the same emmc part- use this method to recover: method )
Lastly "How to make use of the warranty for those outside US, any tips?"
(Living in the Uk, the replacement process has been a nightmare thus far, for the time being they refused to replace my nook because -simpy- I do not live in the US)
Thanks, and I hope this won't happen to many more.
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as your emmc is dead now the only way to revive your nook is to boot from your sdcard you can look in this thread for verygreen's instructions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2221289&page=7 :good:
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as your emmc is dead now the only way to revive your nook is to boot from your sdcard you can look in this thread for verygreen's instructions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2221289&page=7 :good:
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Thanks, it does brinkg the Nook to a -kinda- working order. But it's a single rom (no support for CM10.2?) and it still doesn't solve the problem with the "lost" files.
Since the eMMC is merely corrupt and not really dead one ought to be able to extract the files from there and IMO that's the important part when one loses a "disk" of any sort.
Mine (my Nook) contained files of hundreds of dollars (pricier than the nook itself) and unfortunately due to an accident they are/were the only backups I have (at least they were up until my eMMc got corrupted). I've actually posted an example of how people over the KF forums do it and actually recover both the emmc and the(ir) files, I reckon sth similar ought to be possible for us too. Then again it will need real dev muscle behind such an undertaking, but given now that Nook HD+ is aging (that) we're going to get a lot more dead or dyings EMMCs I think it would be a great idea if such a tool would be developed...
Lastly I think nobody heard what's a nook's fate is if it happens to malfunction while one's residing to UK :/
...anyhow. Again thanks for the link.
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Thanks, it does brinkg the Nook to a -kinda- working order. But it's a single rom (no support for CM10.2?) and it still doesn't solve the problem with the "lost" files.
Since the eMMC is merely corrupt and not really dead one ought to be able to extract the files from there and IMO that's the important part when one loses a "disk" of any sort.
Mine (my Nook) contained files of hundreds of dollars (pricier than the nook itself) and unfortunately due to an accident they are/were the only backups I have (at least they were up until my eMMc got corrupted). I've actually posted an example of how people over the KF forums do it and actually recover both the emmc and the(ir) files, I reckon sth similar ought to be possible for us too. Then again it will need real dev muscle behind such an undertaking, but given now that Nook HD+ is aging (that) we're going to get a lot more dead or dyings EMMCs I think it would be a great idea if such a tool would be developed...
Lastly I think nobody heard what's a nook's fate is if it happens to malfunction while one's residing to UK :/
...anyhow. Again thanks for the link.
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I dunno bout u but my emmc is dead according to verygreen as I get the 110 error in the dmesg so I dont think recovery is an option for me ..Yes and I know about the single rom problem I have made a request in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2434350 you can make one too.
Mine died two days ago. I tried everything, including an sd boot into recovery. Cwm tells me there is no emmc, I cannot reformat it.
I called b&n and should have my replacement in a few days.
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Mine died two days ago. I tried everything, including an sd boot into recovery. Cwm tells me there is no emmc, I cannot reformat it.
I called b&n and should have my replacement in a few days.
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Wait, you live in US right? Because merely due to living in UK B&N refused replacement to me.
If you don't live in US though, please tell me how you convinced them to replace your nook.
That's a bummer.
Fortunately for me, I am in the U.S., and all went smoothly. Funny thing is that from her accent, my guess the customer service agent was in India.
You might be able to trans-ship through someone you know and trust in the U.S. just change your address online before making the call.