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[Q] Having trouble rooting

Just got my NC a few days ago, and decided to root. My software version is 1.0.0, and I was following the instructions on nookdevs.com. I downloaded the boot image to my sd card, put it in there and hooked it up to my computer. It was supposed to boot up, although with the screen not turning on. I was directed to wait five minutes and then power it off, remove the sd card, and then power it back up.
So I did that stuff. Now I just have a blank screen and no boot animations at all. I removed the sd card and tried to boot without it, and I got through the first screen which says something like "the future of reading", and then it just stays blank. My computer will recognize that there's a device hooked up to it, but i can't open it up to even put anything on it. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

the 1.0.0 autonooter does not reboot on its own. I just waited a few minutes and took the sd card and rebooted and i saw the new animation on startup. Have you tried holding down the power button for several seconds to let is power down and then try to power up again?

Hopefully that worked... it says it's installing a "new software update". We'll see if this is it. Thanks for your help.

Okay, so it booted (with the droid boot screen), and it looks like it did before I did the autonooter. My understanding was that it was going to take me to a setup process kind of like the android phones. Am I missing something? Again, many thanks.

troyneuenschwander said:
Okay, so it booted (with the droid boot screen), and it looks like it did before I did the autonooter. My understanding was that it was going to take me to a setup process kind of like the android phones. Am I missing something? Again, many thanks.
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if you got a different boot screen, it probably worked. do you see the android market in your apps list?

That's just it... I don't have an apps list. It looks exactly like it did before I did all of this. It's very confusing.

Try rebooting.
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eyecrispy said:
Try rebooting.
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That didn't help, either. It's the damnedest thing. I know it didn't have the droid boot screen before (where it says it's initializing), but it seems like that's the only thing that it changed.
I would try to update to 1.0.1, but the file from bn.com keeps showing corrupt when I download it. This blows.

Also, when I go to extras, I now have a Youtube icon, as well as a softkeys icon.

go here http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting and follow it step by step (except for the NC rebooting itself part). i'm not sure what to tell you. i do a lot of phone hacking on iphones and before that, WM phones, but this is my first adventure with an android device.

eyecrispy said:
go here http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting and follow it step by step (except for the NC rebooting itself part). i'm not sure what to tell you. i do a lot of phone hacking on iphones and before that, WM phones, but this is my first adventure with an android device.
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Thanks for your help... these are the instructions I followed earlier, but I think I'm just going to repeat them and see if it works. I've rooted my android phone and had no problems with it, but this is just a different beast all together. Again, thanks for your help.

What did you use to root?
When the nc boots to what you say is the stock launcher, can you open extras and see if superuser is there? Some of the root older methods do not install a custom launcher.
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Geezer Squid said:
What did you use to root?
When the nc boots to what you say is the stock launcher, can you open extras and see if superuser is there? Some of the root older methods do not install a custom launcher.
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I used autonooter. Followed the directions to the letter for software version 1.0.0. I didn't see superuser in my extras after "rooting", but I did have the softkeys and youtube icons and they weren't in there before.

troyneuenschwander said:
I used autonooter. Followed the directions to the letter for software version 1.0.0. I didn't see superuser in my extras after "rooting", but I did have the softkeys and youtube icons and they weren't in there before.
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If you had softkeys and youtube then you were rooted.

eyecrispy said:
If you had softkeys and youtube then you were rooted.
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Well, all right. I really appreciate all of your help, guys.
Edit... restarted the process, went to boot after nootering and now I'm in a boot loop. This just keeps getting better.

Did you restore back to stock before rerooting
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[Q] I have totally messed up my Nook Color

Ok so I have totally messed my brand new device, this is second day I have had it. I got it yesterday and first thing I did was install DeeperBlues HC v4 on my eMMC. It was easy. I had to use Autonooter first. I was on 1.0.1. Well after playing with it all night. I started to not like the functioning of apps on the platform. They were great but was in my opinion, no greater than when it was just rooted. So I decided to bring it back to stock. I accidently placed wrong sd card in it, the one with Autonooter on it. Now when it boots up it says Loading.... then I get the word ANDROID in lower left had side of screen in landscape. I am a noob when it comes to this. Now I flash and mess with my phones rom and themes and kernels all the time kind of a junkie, but this is no walk in the park.
Please can someone help me.

MentalDragon said:
Ok so I have totally messed my brand new device, this is second day I have had it. I got it yesterday and first thing I did was install DeeperBlues HC v4 on my eMMC. It was easy. I had to use Autonooter first. I was on 1.0.1. Well after playing with it all night. I started to not like the functioning of apps on the platform. They were great but was in my opinion, no greater than when it was just rooted. So I decided to bring it back to stock. I accidently placed wrong sd card in it, the one with Autonooter on it. Now when it boots up it says Loading.... then I get the word ANDROID in lower left had side of screen in landscape. I am a noob when it comes to this. Now I flash and mess with my phones rom and themes and kernels all the time kind of a junkie, but this is no walk in the park.
Please can someone help me.
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I think you rooted your Nook which could be a fine thing. If that's not what you want, getting it back to stock is very easy.
Here's a link: http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
The tricky part is to get the timing right so that you get the 8 failed boots (that took me a while). If it looks like it's about to boot up up, hold down the power button till it goes off (at least I think that's what I did). If you have adb installed (or install it) you can get around that.

BarryR1 said:
I think you rooted your Nook which could be a fine thing. If that's not what you want, getting it back to stock is very easy.
Here's a link: http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
The tricky part is to get the timing right so that you get the 8 failed boots (that took me a while). If it looks like it's about to boot up up, hold down the power button till it goes off (at least I think that's what I did). If you have adb installed (or install it) you can get around that.
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Yeah, but that's not going to work, he installed HC on the internal eMMC the first day he owned it.........
Probably the fix is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=945838

khaytsus said:
Yeah, but that's not going to work, he installed HC on the internal eMMC the first day he owned it.........
Probably the fix is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=945838
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Is this going to help me. My original firmware was 1.0.1.

Just grab the CWR 1.1 Recovery image from the development forum. Burn that onto an SD Card and reboot. Wipe data boot system cache and flash. done.

Find rootpack in dev section, write that to sd card, add the flashable restore to stock zip from samuelhalffs restore to stock thread in the dev section to your sdcard, boot to sdcard with the rootpack on it, flash the restore to stock zip after formatting system and data. Wala, fixed! All info can be found in my dummies guide to my nook won't boot a few threads down.

Thank you Thank you Thank you. This worked. I now have my Nook back. Thanks.

MentalDragon said:
Thank you Thank you Thank you. This worked. I now have my Nook back. Thanks.
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Ok still need help. I seem to have installed CWR but now i am watching the Nook Color boot animation looping over and over. I tried to reboot but it is still looping. What do I do again? Do I reinstall sd card? And reflash the rom?

khaytsus said:
Yeah, but that's not going to work, he installed HC on the internal eMMC the first day he owned it.........
Probably the fix is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=945838
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Oops. My bad. Sorry for the misinformation.

MentalDragon said:
Ok still need help. I seem to have installed CWR but now i am watching the Nook Color boot animation looping over and over. I tried to reboot but it is still looping. What do I do again? Do I reinstall sd card? And reflash the rom?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Try this Thread, "Dummies Guide to Fixing 'My Nook Won't Boot'""
This should work and get you back to stock so you can start all over.

[Q] How to start over?

I'm not sure whats going on with my D3. However, I have RSD and I have .890 and .959 downloaded as well as Fastboot.
What I want to do is just wipe the phone completely and just flash it like its a brand new phone.
Anyone know how to do so? Please post a link or instructions, I would greatly appreciate it.

atquick said:
I'm not sure whats going on with my D3. However, I have RSD and I have .890 and .959 downloaded as well as Fastboot.
What I want to do is just wipe the phone completely and just flash it like its a brand new phone.
Anyone know how to do so? Please post a link or instructions, I would greatly appreciate it.
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http://goo.gl/7NoAv

Androidsims said:
http://goo.gl/7NoAv
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Tried that. It keeps failing saying something about size was not as expected or something like that.

Redownload?

Avelnan said:
Redownload?
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I have. MD5 sums match up each time. Should I try removing the ext sd card?

I would redownload everything and try agian

littleneutrino said:
I would redownload everything and try agian
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Alright, attempt will be made again. Should I redownload RSD again or just the sbf's?

atquick said:
Alright, attempt will be made again. Should I redownload RSD again or just the sbf's?
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Downloading the sbf's again. Went over to check and see if the phone was still on, The charging led is on, however the screen is off..
Held power, nothing. Held M + Power. Still nothing... Any thoughts on whats going on now?

I didn't see if you have pulled the SD card but yeah it can't hurt.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1278056
Follow the first portion of the instructions on how to flash back to original 5.6.890. Note the making of a folder and it's name for the 890 flash.
Ignore the part about flashing the new ROM. These are the best instructions I've found so far for flashing back to stock via RSD lite.
Good luck, keep us posted.
Download and follow exactly and you'll be good to go.
Hope that helps.
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wattnxt said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1278056
Follow the first portion of the instructions on how to flash back to original 5.6.890. Note the making of a folder and it's name for the 890 flash.
Ignore the part about flashing the new ROM. These are the best instructions I've found so far for flashing back to stock via RSD lite.
Good luck, keep us posted.
Download and follow exactly and you'll be good to go.
Hope that helps.
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It keeps failing.
Step 3 mbmloader.bin
Step 4 mbm.bin
Step 8 logo.bin
Step 9 'lbl'
I'm stuck.

Let me do some looking when I get home tonight. I remember there being a file for certain versions of XP that helped some people and they couldn't flash without it.
I never had it happen personally, but I know those that did were terribly frustrated.
I also hear the 959 version is easier to flash for some reason. Never flashed that version, so this is only hear-say. But I know it did flash easier according to posts.
I will try to dig up a link for you.

i am getting the same thing also getting the bad CG boot.. now this may be a fix but idk how this guy got it it.. i have been asking eveywhere maybe you guys could help me... here is the thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248721

I found this by Psouza. He is likely the foremost expert on making things easy as far as unbricking your D3. Rumor has it he has a set of unbrick tools floating around this forum somewhere, though I haven't found it yet. Try in the Development thread, for sure it has to be there somewhere.
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For those of you having problems flashing this and/or are suspicious of flashing ebr, mbr, and parts of the bootloader, you can selectively just flash the rest of it.
See attachment.
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Hope this helps.
I also saw that flashing the pre-installs file alone first helped someone. That file borked on me once, but I was able to adb it over and then execute it via adb to get my phone unbricked.
Please let us know what works for you, as all of this is a work in progress right now.
Good luck!

i don't know to much about adb and are looking for help on pre-installed files. I don't understand what that means or how to go about it? i also cant get past the bootloader screen, "invalid CG version". i can not boot up at all.

How bricked are you? can you boot into CWM? Are you able to boot into tools, or how far can you get?
What version were you running? 5.959 (stock) or 6.890 OTA or Leaked OTA or Soak test (all the same as far as 6.890 goes).

i can get into boot tools and just tryed another flash got to step 6 till it failed instead of 3.. I'm running stock. Cannot get passed boot tools... scratch all that just tried to flash again just on the off chance it mnight work and i got it. Going to try and re-root and CWN recovery with sdteel froids rom... will keep you in the loop

Awesome!!
Here is the link about the adb commands for preinstall.sh
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17196391&postcount=88
It helped me when I borked my leaked update. I ran into the same problem as limaxray did with too many files in /system. So make sure you clean out any apps you made into system apps before trying the update via the standard update route, and that all stock system apps are in place and properly named.
I had to remove some that updated partially with the leaked update when mine borked. I used the posted system dump to push them to the phone and then the update ran properly and updated them anyhow.
If for some reason re-rooting doesn't work for you. Go to /system/bin and remove su, busybox. Do the same in /system/xbin. For some reason if you already have them in there when you run the process, it will say success but no root after reboot. My 2c as it happened to me. You do not need to remove superuser.apk, but you will have to update it in the market after you re-root.
Congrats!!
I see now too there is a fastboot and moto-fastboot. moto-fastboot has worked for some who had issues from what I've found.
Keep us posted, and smile knowing you've recovered from a bork; none of us got where we are without doing it at least once, so you're in good company.

re-rooted and installed bootstrap, just got steel droid all loaded up and all is good.... thanks for your speedy responses and detailed instructions and links. I realy think all that happened was i took everything aet it sone last time tried to flash and it went threw. All i used was RSD lite and flashed the 8.6.590 fast boot file and after a several retries it went threw. If anyone needs help on this i will post the file links if you need the ones i used

Help the Hapless...

I got a Viewsonic Gtab last year (Model# UPC300-2.2) and was not happy with the stock OS limitations so...like a Wet Ear Noob I watched a few vids and read a few posts here and thought I could do it all myself. Yeah...now I have a 1lb paperweight. Been trying to fix it ever since. I have tried to follow the various posts and links to even get it to factory restore settings but I think it's dead like Disco.
Might there be a person out there willing to baby-step me through this? I got to warn you I'm a hardware guy not a coder. I bricked this trying to install CLOCKWORK for pete's sake.
I'm still looking to put Clockwork on and some other OS that allows more Flexibility like Vegantab. Sadly I don't know what's even left on the poor girl.
Regards,
CW

Have you tried the gtablet for dummies website yet?

tenet420 said:
Have you tried the gtablet for dummies website yet?
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Never knew there was one. I was directed here so... thanks I'll look.

http://viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/

I was there once. But these devices are hard to completely brick. From what I remember, u need to boot to a certain download mode. The screen will stay black, but it will be in download mode, the way u would know is when u see your computer recognizing the tablet. Remember, its the mini usb cable to your pc. Hope this helps
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NVflash is where you'll want to start.
http://viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/nvflash.htm
It's a full reset, and you can even install clockwork at the same time. I recommend the 1.2 branch with clockwork installed (you'll see that on the tutorial above).
Once your nvflashed with clockwork installed you can use the other tutorials on the site to flash your rom of choice.

Nook won't boot

Hi all.
In order to save a buck, I opted to purchase a bricked Nook Color from the world's biggest flea market. According to the previous owner, the boot partition was accidentally formatted while attempting to install CM7. I believe the firmware was 1.4.3. Now it won't boot at all, doesn't power on without an SD, and can't get into CWM.
Exact symptoms:
I power on my fully charged Nook (with bootable CWM sd inserted) and see a half-black, half-white screen. The screen goes dark, then is replaced with a solid black screen.
I've been searching desperately for a solution, but most forums are outdated with dead links. I'd appreciate any help I can get, and I thank you guys in advance.
FYI--I'm a noob, so please be kind.

You may be in a recovery bootloop. Look in my tips thread linked in my signature to learn what that is and for possible solutions to fix it. You may also have messed up your partitions on emmc. Also look at my partition repair thread also linked in my signature.

leapinlar said:
You may be in a recovery bootloop. Look in my tips thread linked in my signature to learn what that is and for possible solutions to fix it. You may also have messed up your partitions on emmc. Also look at my partition repair thread also linked in my signature.
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No dice. Tried your bootable CWM and I'm getting the same symptoms. Is it a gonner?

Bross41 said:
No dice. Tried your bootable CWM and I'm getting the same symptoms. Is it a gonner?
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Did you try the 8 failed boot procedure I talked about in my thread?

leapinlar said:
Did you try the 8 failed boot procedure I talked about in my thread?
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Been trying all sorts of things, including the 8 failed boot procedure. No luck. All I get is that damned blank screen. I've also tried several other bootable CW cards and no result. Is bricking a NC really possible?
I sincerely thank you for trying to help.

It is possible to have a hardware failure that will brick the device. That half black and half white screen is not a good sign. And the fact that it won't turn on without an SD is also not good.
There is more you can try, like use of adb and your USB cable hooked to your PC, but it does not sound good. If you want to try that just search the nook color forum for adb.
Another thread mentioned that B&N has an out of warranty trade in program to get brand new nook colors for busted nook colors for like $80. You might try that.