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[Q] Nook not booting

Hi Guys,
After a few days hacking my nook, I tried the new market for the nook, and the market wouldn't work. I did have a backup but I really wanted to get the new one working. After a few days of trial and error, (Changing permissons, reinstalling, etc.) I found this script on NookDevs-http://nookdevs.com/Enable_the_Android_Market, and wanted to see if this would get me back to stock+root with market and everything. It didn't. My nook won't boot up anymore. It gets stuck on where it has the big gray N and it says Contains Reader Mobile Technology by Adobe at the bottom. I have clockworkmod installed, so I can't take it back to the store. Any help uninstalling clockworkmod or making it boot would be appreciated. I really would hate it if I wasted money on this thing.
PS-I am on update 1.01, and adb is semi-working. I'm sure I could get it to work if I played around.

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Sure would appreciate if someone helped.

I haven't had to do it but its possible to reset it to factory. Search for "reset" in this board. Something about 8 failed boots resets it to stock.
Sent from my NookColor

Clockwork Mod Recovery
I have Clockworkmod Recovery installed. I tried the eight failed boots. It just takes me to the recovery.
Thanks for trying to help though. Appreciated.

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Bump. Hey, does anyone think I should try Nookie Froyo?

pndo1 said:
Bump. Hey, does anyone think I should try Nookie Froyo?
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I used Nookie Froyo to boot and get my device back to usable when it was looping like no other.

Got Nookie Froyo working, but I can't seem to find a way to remove Clockworkmod or restore the system from there. If I removed clockworkmod, I could take it back to the store and exchange it, but restoring it to factory would be even better because I wouldn't have to take it back. I took back my broken Nook charger before, and the guy wanted me buy a new one.

pndo1 said:
I can't seem to find a way to remove Clockworkmod or restore the system from there.
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I don't think you can (yet). That's why they said don't use the in-work version until it's finished, unless you're ok with not being able to restore.

Well, I suppose I shouldn't, but I really wanted to be ready when the ROMS came out. Is there any way I can remove clockworkmod? I wish I hadn't installed that now. I hope I'm not screwed.

[Q] Help Stuck in Clockwork Recover, cannot turn off nc, 1.1.0

i rooted my NC with 1.1.0 and everything was perfect. installed and backup with CWR v 3.0.0.5. I have been stuck in the two screens of cwr. I CANNOT TURN off the nc so 8 aborted on/off s do not work. I cannot restore from sd card since it boots back into cwr, so i have not been able to use any removal code. the Monster pack is not for 1.1. I think I may be bricked. How do I get out of this clockwork recovery program (i have tried all of the options in it too, including fixing permissions, recoveries and endless useless reboots. HELP!

Hold the power button and it will turn off.

i have done that but it turns itself right back on again. it will not stay off. when it does go back on, it goes right back into clockworkmod recover (orange menu screen, landscape only)

Try going here and see if that gets you out of trouble .. Hope it helps

I can't say for a fact that this will make a difference for you, but it certainly can't hurt. Make sure you plug in your Nook Color to the charger, then do the manual power off (as in hold the power button). That should force it to reboot.
Those were the instructions I was given when CWR froze up on me during a kernel flash and it worked. Good luck.

got any mortar-bricked!
got it tuned off. now totally dead.. does not respond to power switch at all now. beware of CWR!!!

Boot CWR off monsterpack SDcard and restore stock system.img/boot.img. This saved me. This is definitely auto-nooter 3.0.0 related because pre-rooted BN 1.1.0 flashable does not have this problem.
ddd22 said:
got it tuned off. now totally dead.. does not respond to power switch at all now. beware of CWR!!!
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no can do...cannot be turned on. stone dead

It is not. Trust me, I've has this thing twice today. boot partition on emmc is messed up I guess. You CAN boot from CWR on SD card.
ddd22 said:
no can do...cannot be turned on. stone dead
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With all due respect, I dont understand how that can be. When I press, or press and hold the power key, nothing at all happens. no screen or light activity of any kind... like someone removed a battery.
After your reply, thinking perhaps my removed micro sd card might make a difference, i put it back in and tried again to power on the NC.. nothing happens still. Are you telling me that somehow if i change the content of my SD card to the Monster Pack that somehow that firmware code is going to turn on the Nook even though i cannot power cycle it at all without that magic? I dont understand how this could be and creating that card is a fairly steep search and discovery mission for me which i am willing to do if it has a chance of working.
btw, the battery is fully charged according to the green N on the usb cable.
Thank you so much for your response.

zdrifter said:
Try going here and see if that gets you out of trouble .. Hope it helps
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What he/she said.. Happened to me once today. Remove the CWR and you should be good to go

how do i do that when no matter what i do the NC will not power on at all...zero. I can no longer even establish a usb connection to the computer.. it detects something and then tries and fails to install required drivers (which were previously installed and previously working). As much as I wish you all are right and I am missing something, I think I may be the first fool to brick the unbrickable!

You will need to make a bootable SD card and boot off that.

i made a bootable cwr sd from the monster rootpack. same nothing happens. will not power on in any way shape or form. will now remake the card with the full rootpack and pray that i can eat my words.

chomp chomp chomp
(the glorious sounds of words being eaten). you both were 100% correct and trust you i should have even more. I followed your advice despite my doubts and I wrote the rootpack image to the sd card and held the power button for about 15 seconds and alive she came! now i am at least back to my cwr that i cant get out of. i now could use a little more of your wisdom as to the best next steps. should i remove cwr then reflash with say 1.1.0R2 or should i figure out how to use cwr to do that flash, and remove it after the flash is completed. obviously a newbee to flashing this device (less than a week old), but have been following Energy on HTC flashes for long times. There is so much information here, it is almost too much when you first step in and your collective willingness to help this doubting thomas is extremely appreciated. my apologies and my deepest thanks. more reading coming up..

resolved!
i added the zip for 1.1.0 -r2 to the monster sd boot card and installed the rom from there. setting it up now. thanks to all for not listening to my doubt and telling me to continue as instructed. forever grateful

ddd-22 - did you install from CWR after rooting 1.1 using the modified Autonooter, or did you sideload the rooted 1.1?
I installed CWR from a 1.1 that was rooted using Autonooter (modified for 1.1) and ended up in a CWR reboot loop similar to what you had.

Yeah- I attempted to run the OC rom after autonootered to 1.1 and got into the loop. Has anyone had succes in loading the OC rom after autonootering to 1.1? Thanks

Thank you for this thread. The exact same thing happened to me after trying to flash a kernel using CWR and autonooter3.0. Thought I was bricked for sure!
I am back to business and glad not to have an expensive paper weight!

though i am on the way to recovery, not fully there yet. the r2 prerooted version was great except i could not log onto gmail... it kept seeing the NC as a phone and was looking for a cellular network, and gave me the message "a reliable connection with google servers could not be made" or some such verbage.. In the pre rooted 1.1. r2, i followed the directions going through youtube etc, but that did not work. so i decided to try to restore the backup i made when i first got caught in the doloop. which i did again, so it is back to monster to start over again and clear out the NC. I have been scouring other sites and many people have been having this problem. I wish i could remember how i installed cwr (method) but cant. however, what i found fairly consistently, and i believe i made the same mistake, was not restarting the NC before i made the backup. seems that is what got a lot of folks into this doloop crisis. if anyone has a plan of how i should get back to my previous state of bliss, let me know. I am remaking monster pack again and clearing out my machine.

[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.

Rooted Nook Color Stuck Boot on Dev Screen

NookColor Version 1.2
About 2ish months ago I bought a nook color for my significant other, but I was having problems getting sideloaded books to work right on it so I decided to try and root it. I'm not extremely tech savvy, but can usually do something like this if I have directions.I rooted with manualnooter-4-6-16 The root went well and it was working fine for a couple days until dummy me started messing with it, don't know what it was that "bricked" it but I had updated the flash player then was in the rom manager and hit the backup button. The keyboard was acting funny so I rebooted it, it got to the screen that says Nook Color with the little android dude in the bottom right (nook color devs) and that screen just kept replaying itself except it would stop at the first O in Color and start over. I tried doing some research and followed a couple tutorials on how to return the nook to stock, none has been successful. The first one I followed was video tutorial on youtube to return it to stock 1.0.1, when it asked me to format the data I got and error format data failed..I just skipped that step and moved on. It booted and still showed me the nook color devs screen and once it completely booted showed a "How do you want to finish this action?" With only Home and Softkeys as a choice, I hit home and all it was was a black screen with a bunch of errors. so I tried a different tutorial, the next one I tried was to return it to 1.2 I followed the instructions, it again gave me a error cannot format data, I ignored it..it booted to the nook devs screen and just kept playing over again. I'm lost on what to do, I've searched and searched.
If it matters I've been using a 16gb micro sd because thats all I have, and was using the 2gb clockwork recovery image. I just want it returned to stock, and can't for the life of me figure out how.
Please someone explain to me in the most dumbed down way how to fix this darned thing.

Don't know how serious "brick" it was on your definition but let say on scale of 10, yr NC is bricked level 9 . Still, no need to panic
1. Get the uSD card (2GB is enough)
2. make it flashable with CwM Recovery (ClockworkMod Recovery) either v3.0.2.8 or v3.2.0.1
3. hunt for "re-partition/re-format" thread, read through. I'll update the link if I find it, can't remember where on top of my head now.
4. perform the repartition/reformat back to original v1.2 NOOK
5. hunt for "restore to NOOK for v1.2". Again, I'll update the link later
6. flash it
7. keep all your fingers crossed

Will try that, thank you..Hope it works..seriously cant afford to spend another 250 dollars to replace it
Edit: Fixed The 8 interrupted boots seemed to have fixed it, thanks for your help!

Scintie said:
Will try that, thank you..Hope it works..seriously cant afford to spend another 250 dollars to replace it
Edit: Fixed The 8 interrupted boots seemed to have fixed it, thanks for your help!
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Glad to hear that!!!!

[Q] Nook Internal memory locked up

I haven't been able to find anything on this so I figured I would post. I had my nook set to CM 7.03 and for the first time decided to do a nightly build. Tried 203 and it worked okay (had fixed the density issue, etc.). It had a few too many hard lock ups so I decided to use ROM Manager to go back to my saved restore. Well, it kind of went back but it was a weird reboot. All my apps showed up but it was laggy, all my apps on the deskstop were gone, the default CM logo was there and the tool bar wouldn't load. Also, the N key stopped working. I tried a lot but eventually tried to completely gut it and start from scratch but no matter what I tried, no go.
From a 2 Gig CWR SD I tried to wipe cache, system and data but wouldn't let me do data. I tried Factory Reset and no go. It said it did but when I tried a vanilla install it went to the above load in with all my apps, same hang ups, etc.
I tried going back to 1.2 original Nook set up and it almost did but got locked in the boot up screen.
Yadda yadda yadda I finally just did a bootable SD card and that seems to work but it essentially cuts out all that original internal memory. A temporary fix at best.
Any ideas how to really gut this sucker and get back to square one??? I can't even get in through the USB because the tool bar won't load so I can't connect it. Gah!!
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated by this old noob.

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I haven't been able to find anything on this so I figured I would post. I had my nook set to CM 7.03 and for the first time decided to do a nightly build. Tried 203 and it worked okay (had fixed the density issue, etc.). It had a few too many hard lock ups so I decided to use ROM Manager to go back to my saved restore. Well, it kind of went back but it was a weird reboot. All my apps showed up but it was laggy, all my apps on the deskstop were gone, the default CM logo was there and the tool bar wouldn't load. Also, the N key stopped working. I tried a lot but eventually tried to completely gut it and start from scratch but no matter what I tried, no go.
From a 2 Gig CWR SD I tried to wipe cache, system and data but wouldn't let me do data. I tried Factory Reset and no go. It said it did but when I tried a vanilla install it went to the above load in with all my apps, same hang ups, etc.
I tried going back to 1.2 original Nook set up and it almost did but got locked in the boot up screen.
Yadda yadda yadda I finally just did a bootable SD card and that seems to work but it essentially cuts out all that original internal memory. A temporary fix at best.
Any ideas how to really gut this sucker and get back to square one??? I can't even get in through the USB because the tool bar won't load so I can't connect it. Gah!!
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated by this old noob.
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Are you trying to wipe everything and install with a version of CWR that is older than 3.2.0.1?

Yah I think it is 3.0.2.8. Is that bad? It is weird. Now even the "bootable" SD runs but some legacy stuff that should be there bleeds in. I think it is haunted (pics from what should be the part of the Nook not being accessed).
I am going to try the "restore Nook easily" bit and see what happens, too.

fil42skidoo said:
Yah I think it is 3.0.2.8. Is that bad? It is weird. Now even the "bootable" SD runs but some legacy stuff that should be there bleeds in. I think it is haunted (pics from what should be the part of the Nook not being accessed).
I am going to try the "restore Nook easily" bit and see what happens, too.
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Yes, use version 3.2.0.1 and you will be able to properly wipe.