My girlfriend recently purchased a nook color, and being the techie I am the first thing I wanted to do was put a custom rom on it and get it to be like a tablet. I ended up installing Honeycomb V4. She didn't like it because of the slowness, and It kept force closing her nook app. I tried the second edition of Honeycomb that I could find, still the same force closing issue. I then installed phiremod V4. She loved it, fast, didn't have any issues with force closing until this morning when EVERYTHING started force closing after a blackscreen/reboot randomly happened in GMAIL.
I then just said okay and tried to restore it back to factory. I have done the following to try to restore it to factory;
8-boot interrupts
CWM restore to both 1.0.0 and 1.0.1
Many different versions of CWM
These are the errors I get when I try these.
I can format /system just fine, but when I try to format /data I get an error stating "Error formatting /data!"
I did the option on the home screen in CWM "Format data factory restore" and that seems to wipe the /data just fine, but I'm not sure.
Whenever I then try to flash the 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 it freezes on the white Nook Color screen and does a little loop over and over. I can still flash either phiremod V4 or Honeycomb back, and both of them work just fine. I have tried EVERY single way to restore that I have found. I just want a rom that is clean and doesn't have any issues, she just wants to read her books.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
I've followed the instructions from this thread several times and it worked:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720
BUT, My Nook is a few months old and has the older partitions. Yours may have the new partitions and I'm not sure if the instructions above work with newer nooks. Why don't you just install CM7? I think your GF would be happier with that. Instructions in this thread for both versions of the NOOK
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227
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Hello.
I have a little problem here and need some advise please. I bought my nook and it came with v1.1.0 firmware. I rooted my nook yesterday and installed rom manager and subsequently CWR. When I flashed cwr I used nook color not nook color old. When ever I tried to make a backup of the rom using cwr it would not mount /system.
I then reflashed cwr and tried nook color old and was able to perform a backup (or so I thought). After the backup was complete the phone rebooted into cwr and now I can get the nook to reboot. It always reboots back into cwr. I have tried turning the nook off and rebooting as well as restoring the nand backup that I just made but it still will only go back to the cwr section.
Please any help would be greatly appreciated. I do not have any other backups saved on my computer that I can go to. Would you suggest taking out my sd card and installing something on it trying something that way?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Best,
Anything anyone. I have tried just about all I know and still cant get it. I am able to burn the honeycomb image and boot up with the sd card but of course as soon as I remove it and restart the nook reboots straight into CWM recovery.
I have tried factory reset and all but still nothing. Any ideas please.
here you go - post 7 in this thread has the fix:
Thanks smitty. I just found it as you posted. Much appreciated though. Now I am back to stock and am stuck on the registration. Attempts to register with B&N for some reason wont go through. Gonna search it a bit to see if I can find a solution. Am sure someone else has had this problem.
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Thanks smitty. I just found it as you posted. Much appreciated though. Now I am back to stock and am stuck on the registration. Attempts to register with B&N for some reason wont go through. Gonna search it a bit to see if I can find a solution. Am sure someone else has had this problem.
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CWR Couldn't mount the system partition because there is a bug with the current CWR, you have to install the "kernel" manually. And don't use the "Old nook CRW" either.
Follow the directions found in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971197
To make it short, using ROM Manager, flash the latest CRW 3.0.1.0 for Nook Color. (No flash old one)
Then use ADB to push the kernel file to the boot partition and you are set.
Can anyone give me a hand with this?
I was running CM7 n40 with ALSA and dalingrin's 0413a kernel. Watching videos in vevo when the nook froze and reset itself and got stuck looping at the CM7 animation.
I've rebooted into CWR, tried first wiping Dalvik cache, it didn't seem to make a difference. I then tried formatting /cache and reinstalling n40 and dalingrin's 0404 kernel. No joy either.
Short of reinstalling everything, is there anything else I can try?
If you are running from an SD card then your problem is likely the card. If you aren't running from an SD card then... Maybe someone else can help you.
Forgot to add, running from eMMC.
I had the same thing, only with CM stable...ended up having to rebuild my / boot with the file here.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690.
Very last file in first post. Had to flash it then start all over....
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You are not alone, mine just did this after updating to the latest nightly and restoring with Titanium Backup. I did not flash a kernel, just the nightly using Rom Manager.
My symptoms were that it seemed to run OK, then I opened the gallery to set a different wallpaper and got constant FCs, so then I restarted. Now I'm watching the circle go round and round.
OK, back to previous, just restored the nandroid backup Rom Manager made prior to the update. Seems to be working fine.
I flashed n40 and dalingrin's oc kernel 0404. Stable and happy as can be.
I'm thinking the issue was with ALSA and experimental kernel 0413a, which has been reported to crash video playback in some cases. Don't know how or why it would corrupt my install though.
Let me just mention a lot of people are claiming false boot loops lately. Sometimes it just takes a long time to reboot, especially after it froze. I've had it take up to 20mins before with the little skateboard android.
So next time unless it's giving you "Touch The Future" and then the CWM treatment, give it a bit to load and see if it does after 10 mins or so. (Usually just after the screen dims, my nook loads up just fine)
No that's unacceptable. Considering the amount of data it should be loading, something is very wrong with your nook if it takes more than 5 minutes to boot.
And yes it was boot looping, the animation restarted itself repeatedly (wasn't just the arrow spinning).
Can't help at all but to offer another data point: I was on nightly 39, ALSA update, and kernel 0413a. Was flicking between homescreens when it locked up, forcing a hard shutdown. When I booted back up, it was stuck in a bootloop. Tried all the usual paths to recovery, but had to resort to a backup.
Moved on to n41 (ALSA included) and kernel 0418c. Stable in every case so far.
I'm having same issue and mine is still not working no matter what I did.
I even tried to restore it back to stock - Format/ Fdisk / DD / etc... tried everything I could find. I even had my back up but couldn't restore. I think I created more problem while I was trying to fix it.
Now I can only boot from SD. So I was not the only one.
Eww, I would never touch any sort of partition change with eMMC installs. Usually I just go back to stock or latest backup. Found out there may be an issue with backups created from CWR flashed to eMMC (MD5 check failure). SO anyone who's made a backp from that, do yourself a favor and boot off a CWR SD and do a backup onto that just to be safe.
Sorry about your troubles, hope you get it sorted. Guess I got away easy with just format and nightly re-flash.
Sorry if this is available here, but I am not having much luck with the instructions that I tried.
I have an auto-nootered 3.0 NC & want to return to stock in order to apply the 1.2.0 update. ( I run CM7 from SD when I want to really have fun) I tried the 8 fail boots & ended up in a boot loop to CWM recovery. What is my easiest (non-ADB) method to get this thing back to 1.1 stock? Again, I apologize if this is right in front of me, but most of the relative threads that I found are very old.
Thanks,
kev
I followed this thread to first remove CWR
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
followed by instructions here to restore to stock
http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
and lastly to side load the 1.2 update.
Cheers
I had to restore to 1.1.0 after autonooter 3.0 by erase and dereg., then 8 starts; 1.2.0 then installed fine.
Jim
For those of us that do NOT have CWM (ClockWorkMod) recovery installed on eMMC, but do have CM7 installed to eMMC, can we use the 8 boot trick to reset our nooks to stock?
I'm running CM7 on my eMMC that I installed using the "CWM on SD" technique. My Nook stopped booting last night after midnight. Since I did not change anything with the OS and had rebooted a couple times earlier in the day, I'm ASSUMING that the 1.2 update came down automagically via wifi late last night, and was unable to complete install when rebooting. I did not see any prompts or input from the Nook during use or on reboot that would have indicated that and update had been received and/or applied.
Also, I was under the impression that the 8 boot reset pulls the software off a chip that has the OS "cooked" into. Is that correct? If not, wouldn't an eMMC install of CM7 remove any chance of the 8 boot reset being successful?
EDIT: just read the linked instructions above. I'll give that a shot tonight.
Anyone have any ideas here - I successfully removed CWM from my NC, then did the eight boot interrupts, and the stock software reload thing seemed to go okay. When I try to reset data by holding down power+n, nothing happens. It turns on, but then right back off. If I try to boot without holding n, it stalls on the "n" screen.
Any thoughts?
Flashed again with cwm up to 1.0.1 and I can't update to 1.2 or 1.1 via internal memory or sd. I changed file names and verified checksums and they are accurate and still no dice. WTF
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Weird. After an erase and deregister 1.1 and 1.2 finally went through. Something must have not been in the right state without that.
So if you're getting stuck do both methods in Part 2 of http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
Same issue as others
Yeah... same issue here. Was running 1.0.1 rooted (no SD method). I did not have CWM Recovery installed in eMMC but did make an 8GB SD CWM Recovery.
So after the failed push update from B&N ... I now have the boot loop issue. My guess is their update failed because of some root thing I had in place. Not installing CWM Recovery to eMMC was my biggest issue because at least that would have blocked the automatic update from B&N.
At any rate... I've tried multiple time to recover and now find myself going back to unrooted stock just so I can get the B&N working again.
My wife is gonna kill me if I can't get this thing working again soon. The new magazine issue of "US" is about to come out. =)
Everybody calm down and just follow the Instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720
[HOW-TO] : Restore Nook Color back to stock EASILY!
That should fix your Nook no matter what you did to it.
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=japzone;That should fix your Nook no matter what you did to it.
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Yes, that works, but that restores the Nook back to 1.0.1. How does one then get it back to 1.1.0?
I followed the same procedure using the 1.1.0 firmware, but it refuses to work.
Anybody know how I can get back to 1.1.0?
Thanks.
assuming you have cwr, have you tried this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050520
I'm about to try it now since I fail at ADB and rebooting apparently...
cameraz said:
Yes, that works, but that restores the Nook back to 1.0.1. How does one then get it back to 1.1.0?
I followed the same procedure using the 1.1.0 firmware, but it refuses to work.
Anybody know how I can get back to 1.1.0?
Thanks.
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I tried this method and it worked perfectly!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=945838
Bought a new color nook two days ago and began rooting it after i bought it using the walkthrough here. I made the bootable SD and that went fine. Put the Zip for nooter on there and that went on fine. I got on and created an account with the android marketplace and all. Then I got the Cyanogen mod from their site, the latest stable version and tried to install it. Got stuck at the color splash loading screen. Turned the unit off and have been constantly messing with it and got it to boot to CM7 but i have no google apps and when i press the home button i am still getting 3 options (Zeam, Softkeys, and something else).
I have tried numerous times reloading MN but it will get stuck at the n screen and not do anything. Sadly my idiot self didnt make a backup before i started rooting and the erase to factory in CWM doesnt do much.
Any ideas? It seems like i might be able to just get by with getting the gapps and putting them on but i dont think it will be that easy...
Thanks in advance for the help
UPDATE: Got the gapps to install but everytime i try and go to something in the market it force closes. Sounds like i need a wipe and start over but i am not sure..
make sure you have a class 2/4 sandisk(brand is what counts here).
Otherwise, I'd just reinstall everything over again through your cwm recovery disk.
As easy as it is to flash back to stock I just don't see the merit of running CM7 off a micro SD. Yes, it can be done, but if you're new to rooting your Nook my suggestion is to start over, wipe everything and install to internal memory.
I recently returned to stock 1.2 with the default recovery flashed (CWM SD card), and then I upgraded to 1.3, and then rooted with the ManualNooter 4.5.18 and 4.6.16 (or whatever their numbers are, I followed the instructions to the T).
It worked fine and I installed everything i needed from the market/titanium backup/etc but the second time I reboot the device it is stuck in a boot loop. The splash screen slowly writes out the word "Nook Color" and it will complete this once, but the second time it does this, it reaches the L in Color it stops and starts over. It will do this for hours.
I wiped it and started fresh over, reinstalling 1.2, re-updating to 1.3, re-nootering (sounds dirty...) all over again, re-installing all my apps all over again (took forever) and yet it still does this. As soon as I rebooted it, this began again
I'm a longtime lurker with a rooted and much-abused DInc, I've had PhireMod, CM7 (without the sleep of death) and Honeycomb on my Nook all without issues (that I couldn't fix). But this has me completely flummox'd. What makes this harder to deal with is that my Nook will not recognize my home Wi-Fi so I have to do all my work on it during my lunchbreak (another issue entirely; unrelated, home wifi is a software solution)
Any Ideas? I haven't yet had the chance to flash the better kernel, because when I reboot it's stuck in this loop. I tried re-nootering and that did not help.
Same with me. Happened 3 times to me last night. I'm still figuring out what i can do to make stock 1.3 + OC + rooted to work.
I'm trying to determine what I did in those 3 times in common. Only thing i can think of i did in all those 3 times was OC +format SD card and installed titanium backup from market.
I'm sure its not a new issue because I remember this happening to me a month ago then I gave up and just went back to miui.
I had the same problem. Look for post about adobe flash causing boot loops. I solved the issue by:
1: after installing 4.6.16, I signed into the marked, downloaded titanium backup
2: used TB to delete the copy of abode flash and adobe air.
3: restarted the nook and had no boot looping.
4: I searched and found a copy of the current adobe flash and sideloaded it using CWM.
It's been 3 day and no boot looping.
Regards
I also had the boot loop issue. It was caused because I updated my flash. Check out this thread....it fixed my issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1208896&highlight=boot+loop
Thanks, Johnny. You've saved me a lot of trouble.
No problem! Happy to help! Thankfully GMPOWER threw together that zip file for everyone!!
Be careful when you install any 3rd party keyboards to /system, it also resulted in boot loops for me with a few of them
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Be careful when you install any 3rd party keyboards to /system, it also resulted in boot loops for me with a few of them
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Was thumb kb one of them?
dohturdima said:
Was thumb kb one of them?
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I have had no issues with Thumb keyboard (either after initial install or updates).