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[Q] Honeycomb emmc formatting /boot?

Just a heads up: The instructions for @samuelhalff 's Honeycomb emmc ROM include this:
Boot with SD inserted, go to 'mounts and storage', and:
- format system, then data and THEN format boot (CWR may crash, simply hard reboot, format should have worked).
If you do format /boot, you will lose the ability to boot into CWR. That may be okay with you, but after trying Honeycomb on my emmc I went back to Froyo, and couldn't figure out why I couldn't boot into recovery.
See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883175&page=103
if you want to restore the original /boot files.
Q: do I have to start over per the thread above or can I just push files to my /boot via ADB? or just boot from SD and restore that way if files are available?
Thanks!

you can boot to cwr via sdcard. that's how those of us on HC do it to make backups and such. works perfect.

Yep I *can* boot to CWR on SD. That's how I installed Honeycomb to the emmc. What I'd like is to restore CWR to /boot
Thanks though.

ahh. sorry, misunderstood.
you could try it... though from what i've read, it's risky. they say it's safer to just run it from the sd card.
if it works out well for you, please post up!

Ran it for a day. Too many force closes for me, but really cool that it runs at all!
Sent from my Nook Color (zoom2) using Tapatalk

My main concern is that I followed the instructions to install Honeycomb via CWR and it worked fine, but I didn't know that reinstalling from scratch ie. nook 1.x would be required since just reinstalling @cicada's Froyo port does not replace all of /boot
No tragedy. Restore just takes a bit longer.
If anybody can tell me how to restore /boot without wiping my current Froyo install that would be pretty nifty.

@xawen to the rescue!
Thanks!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=958748

[Nook Color] Cannot return to stock from Cyanogen

So I rooted my Nook with autonooter 3.0.0, I followed all the directions entirely. It worked perfectly, I liked it but wanted to try other stuff. Then I successfully installed Honeycomb v4 on my Nook, I tried it out, but didn't like it, I'll wait until later as its more developed. Then I installed CM7 on my Nook. Its nice, but for some reason a lot of my important apps force close on me. So I thought would just return to stock and then go to autonooter. I tried the method found here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
So I don't know if it matters, but I remember formatting boot, system, and data in CWR during the installations of Honeycomb, and also formatting the system and data in CM7 and also in trying to return to stock. So in each of the installations I followed all of the directions perfectly.
Ok, so here is my problem. After I try to return to stock, I try to boot up my Nook, it goes to the Touch the Future of Reading screen, then to the screen with the 'n' on it and the adobe message at the bottom comes up. However, it will not go passed this. It hangs and I cannot fix it. I have tried the 8 reboots which does reinstall the original firmware, however when its complete and reboots it does not boot, it does the same thing I just described.
Please help, if I have left out any information just ask and I will fill in the details.

There is a recovery zip on the development forum. Boot into cwr and flash... that should do the trick... hopefully.
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ext3 / ext4
Doesnt he need to format the partions with a ext3 cwr before flashing or will the recovery do that?

vtx67 said:
Doesnt he need to format the partions with a ext3 cwr before flashing or will the recovery do that?
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Yeah, I'm beginning to think I do have to fix up the partitions because everything I do is just giving me more hang.
Can anyone help with that?

Get CWR 3.0.5...
Write the SD card image to your uSD...
Copy repartition-boot-with-stock.zip to the root of the SD card...
Decide if you want to restore to 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 and copy the appropriate nook-complete-restore-1.0.x.zip to root of the SD card....
Boot off the SD card in your NC
since you say you have formatted boot... shouldn't ever need to do that btw...
Format Boot... System... Data... and cache...
Install the repartition boot zip file... then the complete system restore from SD card.

yeah.. once you reformat with CWR 3.0.0.5 you should be able to do the re-partition boot flash and then restore the image.
I just got back that way as well.

DizzyDen said:
Get CWR 3.0.5...
Write the SD card image to your uSD...
Copy repartition-boot-with-stock.zip to the root of the SD card...
Decide if you want to restore to 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 and copy the appropriate nook-complete-restore-1.0.x.zip to root of the SD card....
Boot off the SD card in your NC
since you say you have formatted boot... shouldn't ever need to do that btw...
Format Boot... System... Data... and cache...
Install the repartition boot zip file... then the complete system restore from SD card.
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Thanks for all the help! I'm going to try this now. And I'm guessing it is, but will it be ok to use CWR 3.0.0.6 and boot with that from the SD card?

It needs to be CWR 3.0.0.5 in my experience.
3.0.0.6 supports EXT4 partitions and won't format them back to EXT3.. as long as they are EXT4, the nook will not boot into the stock rom.
The stock kernel doesn't support EXT4.. so it hangs just before it loads the system files..
If you wipe the partitions using 3.0.0.5 and install the full recovery image for 1.01 you should be a-ok.

Alright I got it! You guys are the best! Thanks for the help! Now I just need to re-root and I'm good to go! Thanks again!
Oh and yeah I used 3.0.0.5, that may have been the problem all along because I kept trying to fix with 3.0.0.6. Thanks!

[Q] is there a CWR-flashable stock+auto-nooker image out there?

I have been playing with HC, CM7 etc on my Nook color and decided to go back to running auto-nooker on top of stock, but I want to keep the SD CWR image I made, which has a lot of free space for me to play with future ROM. Has someone packed an CWR zip for auto-nooker?
Thanks.

mathfeel said:
I have been playing with HC, CM7 etc on my Nook color and decided to go back to running auto-nooker on top of stock, but I want to keep the SD CWR image I made, which has a lot of free space for me to play with future ROM. Has someone packed an CWR zip for auto-nooker?
Thanks.
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BOOM Wining.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=932145

therealguppy said:
BOOM Wining.
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LOL. Thanks.
My current ROM is phiremod nook V4.1. After flashing this and reboot. The Nook U picture flashes, then it's flashing "A N D R O I D _" prompt at the lower left and nothing...

There are three of us currently stuck on that damned android_ screen right now. As I posted in the other one if you get out of this please post your steps!

I reflashed phiremod nook V4.1. That boots pass ANDROID_.

Hmm maybe this is due to CM7 using EXT4 and stock using EXT3,
after flashing the Stock restore also try flash the Restore Boot Partition..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
At the bottom of the first post on this one you can find the Restore Boot. which restores Stock B&N boot.

I already did that. Right now as I turn it on, it displays the "Touch the Future of Reading" line instead of the "Loading..." line from CWR. Or do you think this is not sufficient?
There is message when installing repartition-boot-with-stock.zip:
"This will install stock boot 1.0.1 Eclaire --- This won't boot with Froyo!"
Can this the issue too?
EDIT: During the 5 minutes delay b/t post, I installed repartition-boot-with-stock.zip and Nook Color-v1.1.0-r2.zip, now it boots and stucked at the Nook icon with the "Contain Reader Mobile by Adobe" line.

Okay, so I restore stock image, albeit 1.0.1 using images form this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919353
Steps:
1. download/extract boot.img and system.img to bootable sdcard (with CWRv3.0.0.6)
2. boot using sdcard, mount /sdcards
3. use adb to dd the image as described in article.
4. repeat failed boot to force recovery.
I thought this would restore /system and /boot ext3 again, but it doesn't...still getting stuck at "ANDROID_" prompt after reflashing the Nook Color v1.1 above. I am going back to CM7...sigh...
EDIT: Actually, it DID work! My problem was when I reflashed Nook Color v1.1-r2.zip, I wiped system and data, which I shouldn't have.

therealguppy said:
Hmm maybe this is due to CM7 using EXT4 and stock using EXT3,
after flashing the Stock restore also try flash the Restore Boot Partition..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
At the bottom of the first post on this one you can find the Restore Boot. which restores Stock B&N boot.
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FYI I've been in the same boat as you a couple of times now with my Nook not wanting to boot. And it seems it gets to different points each time before locking up and not booting. I'm starting to think the same thing as your comments here. This whole ext4 stuff is what seems to be causing issues for a lot of folks specially when wanting to go back to a different ROM or stock. To further compound it is the fact the newest CWR is 3.0.1.0 and all bootable sdcard files are still 3.0.0.6 or 3.0.0.5. With that said I can tell you making a backup using the 3.0.1.0 CWR that is on the internal mem and then getting stuck booting is no good. Reason being from wha tI've found so far is if you take your 3.0.1.0 backup and put it on a bootable sdcard that has 3.0.0.6 so you can restore, it does not work right from what I've found. The only way I've found to fix it easily so far is to first flash the " Remove CWR * .zip from the link posted here. After that then flash the repartition-boot-with-stock.zip file. Once I've flash those 2 files I'm able to flash a new ROM and have it boot like it should.
Another way I've got around it was to power the device on into recovery with no sdcard in the device. Once it booted into recovery ( ie CWR 3.0.1.0 ) I put the sdcard in the device that had my 3.0.1.0 CWR backup. I restored that backup using the actual 3.0.1.0 recovery from internal mem. Once finished tried to boot and it got stuck. When it did I then powered it down and fire it back up but this time booting to the sdcard and then I flashed the repartition-boot-with-stock.zip and it would finally boot up like it should.
Bottom line IMO at least is it seems to be hit or miss on what is the best way to get it back up and running after the boot partition gets hosed. And that can make it a bit frustrating.

Sorry I don't have time to read all of this. Just keep in mind that > 3.0.0.6 formats to ext4 (ie CM). For stock and froyo, use 3.0.0.5 to format to ext2 and 3..
System, data and cache need formatting before flashing a new rom.
Repartitioning boot is only useful if your NC doesn't boot.
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thought 3.0.1.0 was supposed to work for everything.

CWR does nothing

My nook color recently got stuck on the boot screen for CM7 where the blue android text just chills out in the left corner. This happened right after my nook ran out of battery power.
I have gotten it to boot all the way into CM7 occasionally. However, it is not reliable at all, so I've tried to restore it to stock and reflash the whole thing.
I tried to do this by booting into recovery and then flashing the restore to 1.01 stock zip file, but when the nook rebooted it was still stuck on the android text. I have tried flashing everything related to restoring nooks, but to no avail.
I thought that maybe my CWR was broken, so I tried making a CWR sd card but even when I flashed the restore zip, my nook's boot still gets stuck on the android text.
What do you think I should try to do now?

You are able to boot into cwr though? If so have you tried downloading the stock image file again? Could be the file is corrupt.

I just downloaded it again and it still doesn't work.
I don't think that the problem is the zip files. I think that CWR is the problem since I've tried formatting /system and /data and tried repartitioning boot, but nothing happens...

I just tried to restore my nook to stock through ADB, but it still tried to boot into CM7. I guess that rules out CWR as the problem...
I also made an ext4 compatible CWR SD and tried the restore 1.01 zip again. This time I got past the android text and instead got to the grey android text from the rooted nook boot. However, it just sat there, stuck in a loop.

Odd, that even after wiping system and data that you'd have anything to boot into. You aren't leaving a bootable sd card in place are you?

I make sure to take out the SD card before rebooting.
Is it possible to check to see if CWR/ADB is actually writing to the correct partitions?
EDIT: I do not think that my nook is keeping any changes that I make to it...
I managed to boot into CM7 and I uninstalled a few apps and changed the max clock to 800mhz. Then I rebooted and eventually got back into CM7 and my apps magically came back and my max clock was reset to 1.1ghz.

okay that is very odd. Unfortunately I've never run into this or even read about it before. Hopefully someone here will be able to give you a tip that will help you fix this.

I've been having same issue for a week now. I tried everything I was able to find here but nothing is wokring. It seems like my nook became a read-only device. No matter what I do it goes back to previous stage.
I was running CM7 RC4 and system hung so I rebooted and that was it. It displays "Android_" on the bottm for about 10-15 sec and reboot.
I tried
CWR 3.0.0.5
- Repratition to stock nook.
- Getting error when I try to format system and data - I thought it was because CM7 was setting system to ext4.
- ADB and DD boot.img, System.img and copy Factory to mmcblk0p3
- Try to restore from back up I made
- Nothing works but goes back to boot loop
CWR 3.0.0.6 - One I got from CM7 install to emmc thread
- System format works
- Install latest nightly
- Restore from back up
- ADB can't find device - This is odd and couldn't find a way to fix it yet.
- Tried to install Stock zip but going back to CM7 boot loop
CWR 3.0.1.0
- Can't format data/system
- ADB to delete partitions and create them again but it doesn't help
- Tried all zip files to bring it back to stock - no go
- ADB to copy Factory.zip to emmc partition - umount and mount again then file I copied is gone.
- Deleted partitions and reboot but some how I got back to CM7 loop
I see people start to talking about CM7 boot loop issue. I saw this thread and man this is same issue I'm having! Let me know if you some how resolved this issue. I will do the same if I can find one.

Naw, I haven't resolved it yet...
I will post the solution if I do though!
Perhaps it's just a coincidence, but I am also stuck running RC4. Maybe there's some weird glitch in RC4 that makes the file system read only or something...?

I went from RC4 to stable with no problem. I did notice that CWR was not mounting the system and data partitions so I did have to do that when updating. Not sure why they aren't mounting automatically.

From the Dummies guide link....Here...
First visit this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
Download either the Rootpack, or the Clockwork Recovery image (1gb).
Next visit this link and download the 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 restore to stock files:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
From this link you should also download the very last zip on the page. It is titled-flashable boot repartition zip. or something of the like. If you followed all these steps and still nothing, I would recommend flashing this as it can fix a completely screwed boot partition.
I had to use that last file after my hard crash. Seems that te /boot gets corrupted and tis seemed to fix it for me. After this you will probably need to do a full wipe and reinstall.
My order was...
rebuild /boot
reflash to stock
reflash to CM7
not sure why this worked...just did.
edit: just noticed my H key isn't always working...makes me type like a alf drunk brit..

deadbot1 said:
From the Dummies guide link....Here...
First visit this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
Download either the Rootpack, or the Clockwork Recovery image (1gb).
Next visit this link and download the 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 restore to stock files:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
From this link you should also download the very last zip on the page. It is titled-flashable boot repartition zip. or something of the like. If you followed all these steps and still nothing, I would recommend flashing this as it can fix a completely screwed boot partition.
I had to use that last file after my hard crash. Seems that te /boot gets corrupted and tis seemed to fix it for me. After this you will probably need to do a full wipe and reinstall.
My order was...
rebuild /boot
reflash to stock
reflash to CM7
not sure why this worked...just did.
edit: just noticed my H key isn't always working...makes me type like a alf drunk brit..
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I tried this too but mine didn't come back.

Hmm. dunno. Maybe you can get samuelhalff to chime in...he was helping another guy out with something similar. searc in the threads for his name and your problem...wasn't to long ago.
edit---http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1022941 this was the thread I was talking about...doesn't appear they came up with a solution.

I tried all the things you suggested guys, but nothing worked...
Although I think I made some kind of progress... I tried to dd stock boot.img and system.img files onto my nook and now CM7 just bootloops instead of hangs!
Hopefully we can get this sorted out soon, or else I may try what one member suggested about microwaving it so that you can get a new one...

Weird problem going back to stock.

I'm using a CM9 rom on my nook color and I wanted to go back to stock, so I created a cwr sd card. I can boot into recovery, so I format data/system/cache/dalvik and load nookcolor_1_4_1_update-signed.zip, then reboot the nook, it booted up to the Nook Color screen, then would do some weird boot loop is what I'm thinking I was getting. So I tried again, format everything, install the image .After rebooting it looks like its going to work, but then it hangs at the gray n screen. So I used a new sd card and a different cwr image and redid everything, same problem. So I went back to CM9 and it works fine, but why can't I go back to stock? I've read tutorials all over this place and even a few different ones from other websites. I'm following the instructions exactly.

jimmylee7706 said:
I'm using a CM9 rom on my nook color and I wanted to go back to stock, so I created a cwr sd card. I can boot into recovery, so I format data/system/cache/dalvik and load nookcolor_1_4_1_update-signed.zip, then reboot the nook, it booted up to the Nook Color screen, then would do some weird boot loop is what I'm thinking I was getting. So I tried again, format everything, install the image .After rebooting it looks like its going to work, but then it hangs at the gray n screen. So I used a new sd card and a different cwr image and redid everything, same problem. So I went back to CM9 and it works fine, but why can't I go back to stock? I've read tutorials all over this place and even a few different ones from other websites. I'm following the instructions exactly.
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I had the same exact problem when I was experimenting that process for my tips thread. For some reason, CWM is not clearing the partitions with the wipe commands like it should. The only way I could get it to work properly was to use my partition format zip to format them. You can get that zip at my tips thread linked in my signature. That zip version (5-6-7) formats /system, /data and /cache. That thread also has a link to my 1.4.3 stock zip.

thanks!
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I had the same exact problem when I was experimenting that process for my tips thread. For some reason, CWM is not clearing the partitions with the wipe commands like it should. The only way I could get it to work properly was to use my partition format zip to format them. You can get that zip at my tips thread linked in my signature. That zip version (5-6-7) formats /system, /data and /cache. That thread also has a link to my 1.4.3 stock zip.
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That did that trick ! Thanks so much. I just ran the 5-6-7 zip, and then installed 1.4.1, and was back to stock, updating now.