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Nook color won't turn on, won't boot sd card

Well I don't know what I did but this morning when my nookie froyo emmc was at 20 percent it decided to turn off and not turn on and won't turn on when charged and will not boot any sd cards. I feel stupid but after my nook working on emmc froyo for a week and now its not even turning on I feel very stupid. All help is appreciated, thanks!
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Have you tried booting to the CWR card yet? And using Samuelhalff's zip that restores the stock partitions? This seems to have worked for many people experiencing the fatal Froyo crash. Take a look at the 'Easily Restore to Stock" thread found here in the Nook forums. And in the end if your device truly won't turn on, then chances are the guys down at B&N won't be able to either. *Warranty*

Well I have tried monster root pack as a card but I haven't tried stock partitioning,i dont know where the thread is. But will this let me even boot an sd card ?
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RileyGrant said:
Were you running froyo off emmc? If so:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720
I recommend flashing this ROM instead though (pre-rooted 1.1):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=932145
And yes if you insert the CWR sdcard into the nook and hold the power button, it will power on. The reason it isnt powering on currently is because your froyo boot partition is corrupted, not because of the nook itself. The CWR sdcard has a different boot partition that your nook will see and boot to when you hold the power button down with the CWR sdcard in.
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Thats my post from an earlier thread with someone having the same issues. It worked for him, it should work for you. Just make sure you follow the steps right and especially make sure your burning the Clockwork image to your SDcard correctly that way it will boot into Clockwork instead of staying black.

I'm gonna have to give these steps a whirl. The downloads are taking foreeeever.
Also had Froyo installed with CWM and just got finished installing gapps. I went to format an SD card, had no luck, and tried to reboot. Ol' Nookie decided not to come back to life after that.
edit: wait, instead of flashing the stock rom can I flash the pre-rooted 1.1 rom?

Just read this over on android central (in a thread about flashing honeycomb). I believe it is what I did and why my nook won't boot:
****While running Honeycomb from Internal Memory NEVER choose the option to format your SD Card from within Honeycomb. The files that were altered to let HC run internally will lead the OS to actually format your boot partition instead of your SD. If you need to format an SD, do it on your computer or in an Android phone, etc.*****
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Drat. Just got my CWM image on my sd card. Here goes nothin! Will report back

OK, I have CWM booting off the SD card, i'm formatting system and data under mounts and storage, and then i'm installing the 1.0.1 complete restore. It goes through and then I got to reboot system. Then...nothing. Back to black screen. Help please!
I can pop the SD card back in and boot back to CWM. I've tried several times now with no luck

samuelhalff has a flashable zip that restores the boot partition for situations like this. Go look for it in the development forum. you should be able to flash it using CWR and your NC ought to boot.

eyecrispy, thank you! samuelhalff's boot zip followed by his 1.0.1 complete restore zip did the trick.
RileyGrant, thank you for your post as well. Much obliged!!

Mine just shows a blank screen. All I did was boot into ClockwordMod Recovery, make a backup, then reboot. I was going to flash the Honeycomb Rom, but decided to give it some more thought first. Now All I get is the blank screen, it won't power all the way off, and it won't power on or anything
EDIT: Managed to get it to turn off, but when I turn it back on it boots into recovery. I select Reboot System now, and it reboots back into recovery. Forgive me, I'm so new to this Nook Color thing lol
EDIT AGAIN: Tried using the Monster Pack or whatever, flashed the removeclockwork.zip, followed by the installclockwork.zip, then removed the SD card, rebooted, and went right back into Clockwork Recovery. What gives?

YUP Same thing happened to me. I have read all the posts in this thread and i did try to format the card i had in my nook in the brand new phiremod froyo rom. Now it wont boot at all. I have a CRW card on hand and it wont even boot that. Idk right now, nothing is working.

Try reading through the Dummies Guide to Fixing 'My Nook Won't Boot'.
I did it last night and I'm back up and running again. Here's my post for an abridged version of what I did last night: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11374824&postcount=29

I had the same problem until I flashed the repartition fix.
Give that a try

I've got the exact same problem as the OP. Running Froyo on EMMC with no problems for a few days, then I left it for a while and now it wont turn back on or boot from uSD.
I've tried long presses on the power key, usb cable power up, but nothing works. I've tried the v4 HC image and the clockwork recovery image and neither are booting.
I verified the CWR image on my android phone and it does boot on my phone, so the image is definitely okay.
Hate to think it, but could this be a battery management issue in the 0.6.7 image and the battery is now screwed? Doesn't seem like boot partition corruption to me.
Any comments or suggestions are welcomed

ChrisAC84 said:
Mine just shows a blank screen. All I did was boot into ClockwordMod Recovery, make a backup, then reboot. I was going to flash the Honeycomb Rom, but decided to give it some more thought first. Now All I get is the blank screen, it won't power all the way off, and it won't power on or anything
EDIT: Managed to get it to turn off, but when I turn it back on it boots into recovery. I select Reboot System now, and it reboots back into recovery. Forgive me, I'm so new to this Nook Color thing lol
EDIT AGAIN: Tried using the Monster Pack or whatever, flashed the removeclockwork.zip, followed by the installclockwork.zip, then removed the SD card, rebooted, and went right back into Clockwork Recovery. What gives?
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how did you get yours to turn off, my screen says loading... and is stuck there. any help in getting mine to shut off would be helpful

Does holding power button for a few seconds turn it off?

Same thing happened to me, this fixed my problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=986977

Sorry for asking what's probably a silly question, but I haven't seen an answer. Is this known to the Nookie dev(s) and being addressed? Just had it happen running Nookie 0.6.8 off the SD card. I was really enjoying it and just telling the wife how I think I'll flash it to the eMMC, but I might have to reconsider if this might occur. Battery was ~80%, no goof-ups reformatting anything. Locked the screen around 1:10 this afternoon & hadn't touched it since. Got home about an hour ago to turn it on, nothing. Disappointing, Nookie is pretty good!

nook color wont turn on
so what to do if i dont have a sd card with cwr or honeycomb (what i was trying to run)ive already called for the replacement, but i would still like to know what to do.

I found this thread after suffering the same or similar problem to everyone else. I turned off the screen and set my nc aside for a few minutes, then it would no longer boot. Screen just stayed black and was completely unresponsive to any input. Working my way through some troubleshooting, I plugged the nc into my computer via USB and it booted into CM7 instantly. I have no idea why this happened, but it's working fine now.

[Q] Can't run anything but Autonooter on my NC.

I was running Phiremod on an sd card a couple of nights ago and something went terribly wrong with my NC. I tried to get into the program and it would boot all the way to the home screen and then just power off. I couldn't get it to boot into CM7 running on an sd card either. I searched these forums and others and although I returned the device to stock, repartitioned the boot, removed clockworkmod, reflashed the roms, reformatted the sd card (16gb), switched to an 8gb card and I don't know what all else (not necessarily in this order), I cannot run any roms other than Autonooter 3.0. It installs from an 8gb card with no problem and runs fine. But when I try to use my CM& nightly 37 from my other NC, no go; I reflashed Tablet Tweaks, HC V4, Nookie Froyo and tried them all, no go.
I could get Phiremod to load all the way to the home screen and then start powering off. CM7 comes up to a blank screen with the status bar and buttons at the bottom but also a status bar at the top that says Android system and then it powers off. I rooted the NC with Autonooter 3.0 and then tried to install Tablet Tweaks and got the same weird Android System status bar at the top and then it powered off.
Any ideas? I have been working on this for 48 hours and I got nothin'. I can't get ADB to work with just the NC running stock (I am no expert and might be doing something wrong).

First run autonooter and root it, then u can use rom manager to flash clockwork recovery to emmc. After that use either of the two to flash another rom to emmc.
Also were trying everything from sd card or were u flashing to emmc?
And i am not sure but ADB should work with rooted stock.

Thanks for the response. I will try flashing cwm to emmc tomorrow. I was trying everything on SD cards and emmc. I installed Tablet Tweaks to emmc with the weird result mentioned in the op. TT wouldn't run from an sd card or emmc: the NC just kept powering off as soon as it got to the home screen but before it finished loading up. I should be able to use adb now that I'm rooted. Silly me, couldn't get the device to be recognized running stock. I'll update on how things go and probably will still need help.

Ok, I just installed Clockwork and then using it I flashed Nookie Comb. The installation went fine, boot up went all the way through to the home screen and then the same thing as usual happened: the weird notification bar at the top that says Android System, the status bar with softkeys at the bottom, and immediate powering off.
I think I saw this weird notification bar once when I was rebooting the Nook before I used autonooter, so I think that something is wrong on the emmc level. I have returned to stock and looked at the information in Factory and it shows that I have been returned to 1.0.0. But after I go through with the registering process, I find that the device is on stock 1.1.0 without having to sideload the update. I don't see any notification that I have been updated to 1.0.1, which used to be the case before all this happened. I was trying to avoid messing with the stock rom (warranty) but it looks like I won't be able to do that unless I can figure out what happened here. If all else fails, I will just stick with autonooter, which works well for the purposes for which I use this NC. I do have a second NC that works just fine and can run roms off an sd card. Maybe I can take something off of it and put it on the other?
Any assistance is appreciated.
04/10/11 - 6:00 pm****As I said above, I searched high and low and I tried everything!, but still nothing has got me back to being able to run roms off sd cards yet. But I feel that I have made some progress. I was very disturbed about going from 1.0.0 to 1.1.0 without applying the sideload update so I decided to start all over again and restore the NC to stock. I found yet another thread and followed the instructions, except that I unknowingly used CWR 3.0.0.6 instead of CWR 3.0.0.5. So, instead of immediately rebooting into the stock hardware, I had to do a hardware reboot. This brought me back to 1.0.1 and I was able to install the sideload update. So stock rom seems to be back to normal. I took the CM7 rom I am running in my second NC and put the sd card in the trouble NC. It did boot up and completely loaded up the homescreen. This time no top notification bar, no Android System message, but yes, the little sd card icon showed up at the bottom although no message about a damaged card or sd card now removable showed up. But the screen was completely frozen and the device immediately turned off. There was no powering off notice or anything; it just went off and the screen went black. This is a 16 gb card. I am going to try with an 8 gb card now.
04/11/11 12:40 am**** Ok, I give up. I have succeeded in getting nowhere fast. I am thankful that I can run Autonooter 3.0 on it and use sd cards to load my files for using on the NC. I miss the froyo/honeycomb/cm7 experience on this NC but at least I get it on my second one. One good thing that came out of this: i can do the eight boot interrupt thing without a hitch!

NC boot up problem

I flash my NC with CM7.0, now everything seems working fine, but I found there are sometime(not always) it stuck at boot animation, after touch the future of reading, it just stuck there.
this happens alot when I turn it off for long time, I am not sure what is the problem seems it doesn't happen every time.

I am having the same problem, but noticed that if i take the SD card out the NC starts normally. so i am figuring somthing is left on there from the install that is causing the hang up.... or maybe it is something else and i am too naive to realize what it is. Any help would be appreciated.
Using CM7.0 stable.

I tried to install CM7 on my nook color and i didnt follow the proper method and instead saved the CM7 file to the root of my sd card and installed the zip through clockworkrecovery without wiping or cache and now im stuck at the android boot screen. It isnt the CM7 skateboard android boot but rather the plain android root boot screen. If anyone could help it would be helpful thank you! IM crying right now about it

ikryptic said:
I tried to install CM7 on my nook color and i didnt follow the proper method and instead saved the CM7 file to the root of my sd card and installed the zip through clockworkrecovery without wiping or cache and now im stuck at the android boot screen. It isnt the CM7 skateboard android boot but rather the plain android root boot screen. If anyone could help it would be helpful thank you! IM crying right now about it
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Hold power+n for 10 seconds to turn off
Clockwork bootable sd card, wipe system/data/cache (not boot), install cm7 from zip, install gapps from zip.
This is for a clean fresh install.
I made the same mistake yesterday going from stock nook to cm7 on nook #3 (so used to flashing nightlies on the other 2 i forgot to wipe system first)

[Q] CM7 sort of working.

I am using a Motorola Droid on Verizon. Up until yesterday, it was bone stock. I rooted it, installed ROM Manager from the market, and followed the instructions to do a Nandroid backup.
I then I researched on the installation of a new ROM. I picked CM7, followed the instructions (or so I thought.) Using ROM manager, I installed it from the SD card. The file itself was in the download folder, not all the way at root. Also, it did not say anything in the program about formatting the SD card. I did, however, format the cache and dalvik cache.
Upon starting, it looped the boot screen for about 15 minutes. I tried again, same thing. I was getting frustrated, and unplugged and kept trying it. Eventually I tried to go back to my Nandroid backup, and at least have a working phone. My phone now said it couldn't find my SD card. I pressed factory reset, and when I rebooted, CM7 started, but didn't work correctly.
I am now stuck here: The Verizon part of my phone works. It makes and takes calls and texts. But I never got an 'enter your gmail address' screen. I also have no apps, other than the stock CM7 ones. No market access, nothing.
Can anyone help me?

CM7 doesn't come with Google apps. After installing cm7, use rom manager to install gapps pack. You will get your market, gmail and all others you want.
Gapps is also available as a seperate flashable update from the link below.
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_Version#Google_Apps
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I'm getting two different scenarios while trying to install the Apps zip file, neither of which work.
If I 'install from the SD card' through ROM manager, it reboots, I get the Moto M, and then the phone goes to a new screen, where looks like it can't find the SD card, and then gives up after about 7 or 8 tries.
I do it manually, ClockWorkMod only will stay open for about 10 seconds, and then the phone reboots again. I don't even have time to get to the file. And even if I did, I don't think it'd take if I clicked it fast enough.
I feel like I'm so close to having my phone work, but I can't quite get it.

PatrickRamsdell said:
I'm getting two different scenarios while trying to install the Apps zip file, neither of which work.
If I 'install from the SD card' through ROM manager, it reboots, I get the Moto M, and then the phone goes to a new screen, where looks like it can't find the SD card, and then gives up after about 7 or 8 tries.
I do it manually, ClockWorkMod only will stay open for about 10 seconds, and then the phone reboots again. I don't even have time to get to the file. And even if I did, I don't think it'd take if I clicked it fast enough.
I feel like I'm so close to having my phone work, but I can't quite get it.
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Did you try a fresh install? I meant wiping data.

I cleared all the data and it works. It works PERFECTLY. Thank you so much for your help. Seeing as though this is my only phone, and only phone I'm going to have for a long time, you have no idea how much hassle you saved me. Again, thank you!

No problem. Enjoy CM7.

Trouble with CM7.2 install (disregard, fixed)

I've tried repeatedly to install CM7.2 and keep getting stuck on a blank screen. I'll see a "CyanogenMod" then "loading..." right below that. Then it goes blank and nothing ever happens after that.
Some background info. I've had CM7 installed on this in the past without problems. Months ago I went back to a rooted stock. Then yesterday I decided to try CM9 alpha. That installed perfectly. But it was too slow, so I decided to try CM7.2.
I used the same CWM 1GB boot SD, copied "encore_CM72-MiRaGe-02012012.zip" along with the Gingerbread Gapps and CWM. Installed in the same order and wipe data/factory reset.
So I got stuck on that blank screen after the CyanogenMod loading... message. I then decided restore to stock. Installed the 1.01 stock image. It also wouldn't boot up, but I powered it on and off 8 times and it did a factory reinstall and then it booted up normally.
Once back at a factory fresh system. I powered it off and tried installing CM7.2 again. Unfortunately I'm having the same problem again. Ugh, why won't it load now.

Hang on... I might be in the process of making a newb mistake. MD5 didn't match on my SD card, probably the ROM.ZIP is corrupted. Trying again with a good copy.

That was it. It's working now. Please disregard my idiot on the Internet moment. Thank you.

You always figure it out five minutes after you finally give up and post for help/venting.
Been there.