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Last night I turned off my NookColor via Nookie Froyo, and since then I've been unable to get the device to turn back on.
When I plug it into the charger it appears to be charging, but doesn't boot like normal. (It was fully charged when I powered off, so I don't think it's out of battery)
When I hold the power button, nothing happens (Even for extended periods of time).
I've tried various key combinations, but it's seeming more likely that the thing has been completely bricked.
Any tips or advice?
Link3737 said:
Last night I turned off my NookColor via Nookie Froyo, and since then I've been unable to get the device to turn back on.
When I plug it into the charger it appears to be charging, but doesn't boot like normal. (It was fully charged when I powered off, so I don't think it's out of battery)
When I hold the power button, nothing happens (Even for extended periods of time).
I've tried various key combinations, but it's seeming more likely that the thing has been completely bricked.
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Most likely it discharged on you, they have a habit of waking up and draining at the nominal rate of 8-10%/hr. I've found mine dead or nearly dead about 3 times because of this.
It'll take about 15 minutes for it to come on after being on the charger if the battery is flat dead. So... is it working for you now?
It's not bricked.
Link3737 said:
Last night I turned off my NookColor via Nookie Froyo, and since then I've been unable to get the device to turn back on.
When I plug it into the charger it appears to be charging, but doesn't boot like normal. (It was fully charged when I powered off, so I don't think it's out of battery)
When I hold the power button, nothing happens (Even for extended periods of time).
I've tried various key combinations, but it's seeming more likely that the thing has been completely bricked.
Any tips or advice?
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I really hope you didn't replace your internal memory with that Ad 2.2 rom.
2 ways you may can find your nook back ( at least 1 of the 2 ways will work ):
1, hold the power button at least 40 seconds or longer, until you can see it restart. If this didn't work;
2, Burn a boot-able SD card with CWR, and recover your internal memory to stock rom.
Those are normal things what I did when the bad thing happened.
khaytsus said:
Most likely it discharged on you, they have a habit of waking up and draining at the nominal rate of 8-10%/hr. I've found mine dead or nearly dead about 3 times because of this.
It'll take about 15 minutes for it to come on after being on the charger if the battery is flat dead. So... is it working for you now?
It's not bricked.
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My first instinct was to let it sit for a few hours, then try and recharge it, but after having it on the charger for about 30 minutes now it's not seeming to respond.
Normally when it's died, I plug it back in and get the "Battery too low, wait 15 minutes" screen, but like I said, the device is just staying off.
franklicd said:
I really hope you didn't replace your internal memory with that Ad 2.2 rom.
2 ways you may can find your nook back ( at least 1 of the 2 ways will work ):
1, hold the power button at least 40 seconds or longer, until you can see it restart. If this didn't work;
2, Burn a boot-able SD card with CWR, and recover your internal memory to stock rom.
Those are normal things what I did when the bad thing happened.
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I've done #1 a few times now (Thinking that I could hard reset it, if that were the problem)
As for #2, I can't boot from an SD because the device won't power on! I'm running Nookie Froyo in a dual-boot state with the stock 1.1.0 rom in eMMC. I'm not quite sure what the "Ad 2.2 rom" is, though.
And thanks for both of your responses
Ad 2.2 = Android 2.2
If you do this : burn the SD like I mentioned, put that into your nook, plug in the power cable, and just hold the power button . It SHOULD turn on in 10-15 seconds.
I use this way many times to save my brick nook, so believe me it is worth to try.
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.
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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I can't thank you enough for this response! Saved me an embarrassing trip to B&N to get a replacement
Link3737 said:
I can't thank you enough for this response! Saved me an embarrassing trip to B&N to get a replacement
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Glad to be of use. Happy Nooking!
Not to hijack this thread but this has happened to me and I have tried to install the previous two ROMs with no luck... Any help would be appreciated...
I forgot I had a nandroid backup prior to going to Froyo... Lets see if that works... Restoring now...
UPDATE: Well that didn't work either... Still not able to boot up unless it is by using the SD card... Any suggestions?
flash my boot repartition zip. see my froyo on emmc thread..
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Kerflop said:
I forgot I had a nandroid backup prior to going to Froyo... Lets see if that works... Restoring now...
UPDATE: Well that didn't work either... Still not able to boot up unless it is by using the SD card... Any suggestions?
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Your boot partition probably got fu*ked somehow. Go to this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
At the very bottom (like the very last line) it says "-Download flashable repartition-boot-with-stock.zip here." Download that file and trying flashing that.
That was it, I must have done something when I tried to recover from the 1.1 push. Thanks to both of you for the help...
Using CM7, had no isses since I got everything working.
However, my NC's battery ran out last night. When I plugged it in today and let it charge, it went to "Touch the future of reading."
I cannot get it to boot past this point. I haven't changed anything recently. So what gives?
a quick search and i found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=943201
I was having the same issue when i ran my nook out of power. i rebooted into recovery, ran the CWR-removal.zip and rebooted and i was back up.
So how do I boot into CWM? Put it on an SD card from PC? I just had it on an SD to put CM7 on the Nook.
PGibbons999 said:
So how do I boot into CWM? Put it on an SD card from PC? I just had it on an SD to put CM7 on the Nook.
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Yes. If you still have it on sd from when you flashed CM7, use that.
eyecrispy said:
Yes. If you still have it on sd from when you flashed CM7, use that.
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I don't I've wiped the SD and been using it as storage. Is there a way to put CWM on the card without wiping it?
I'm running froyo on the emmc and had the battery drain out - got stuck at the future of reading screen. I wound up reloading froyo from the sd.
Peter
pwlorraine said:
I'm running froyo on the emmc and had the battery drain out - got stuck at the future of reading screen. I wound up reloading froyo from the sd.
Peter
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Did you have to use CWR?
I have the same exact problem.
Me and my girlfriend just bought a Nook Color each, and rooted it with CM7.
We have the 3.0.0.6 bootloader/recovery thing.
The problem occurs when we drain the battery (we usually do before charging to preserve the battery), when we connect the power (the Nook is off) it says "battery charge to low to power on, try again in 15 minutes", and after a couple of minutes, it turns on, showing "Touch the future of reading." Normally after this we would see "Loading", then "Android_", but instead it is locked on "Touch the future of reading."
If I turn it off, it turns it self on again, and it is stuck on the same place. I let it be for 1 hour, still the same. As I'm not to fond of having the screen on all the time, I tried turning it off, then quickly press "Power + Volume Up + n". This started the nook in recovery mode, giving me the message that "install failed, turn off and on again" (which I guess is because I have deleted the original nook partitions). After this, I turned it off, and then it was completely off, not booting up again. Then I tried holding power to power it on normally, and it worked.
The power was connected at all times.
What is wrong here? It seems like the nook doesn't like being off when charging, meaning you have to be careful to never drain the power 100 %, or turn it off when it's below 10 %, because then it won't turn on.
Strange thing.
nordemoniac said:
I have the same exact problem.
Me and my girlfriend just bought a Nook Color each, and rooted it with CM7.
We have the 3.0.0.6 bootloader/recovery thing.
The problem occurs when we drain the battery (we usually do before charging to preserve the battery), when we connect the power (the Nook is off) it says "battery charge to low to power on, try again in 15 minutes", and after a couple of minutes, it turns on, showing "Touch the future of reading." Normally after this we would see "Loading", then "Android_", but instead it is locked on "Touch the future of reading."
If I turn it off, it turns it self on again, and it is stuck on the same place. I let it be for 1 hour, still the same. As I'm not to fond of having the screen on all the time, I tried turning it off, then quickly press "Power + Volume Up + n". This started the nook in recovery mode, giving me the message that "install failed, turn off and on again" (which I guess is because I have deleted the original nook partitions). After this, I turned it off, and then it was completely off, not booting up again. Then I tried holding power to power it on normally, and it worked.
The power was connected at all times.
What is wrong here? It seems like the nook doesn't like being off when charging, meaning you have to be careful to never drain the power 100 %, or turn it off when it's below 10 %, because then it won't turn on.
Strange thing.
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A couple quick observations--
The 3.0.0.6 recovery thing, also known as clockworkmod recovery, is an older version, so you'll want to update that when you can (via Rom Manager probably as that's the easiest way).
You're misusing some terms. You don't "root" with CM7-- rooting is the process of enabling the root/superuser account, typically on the stock firmware. CM7 is an alternative software/ROM/operating system that includes an enabled root account, but is probably best known for the other additional features it includes beyond standard Android.
The wait-for-more-power message comes from the bootloader, called "u-boot". After you see that "Touch the Future" message, you should be seeing "A N D R O I D _" which is the kernel loading up and the boot starting. If you don't see that at all, I'm guessing one of the following files are missing/messed up on your boot partition (p1, the first partition on your device):
uImage -- the kernel file
uRamdisk -- a small "bootup" file which includes several files bundled together that is necessary for a successful full boot.
Both of these should have been installed when you installed cm7. Assuming you have tried previously, you might again try reinstalling the latest cm7 update.zip from scratch. As of now 7.02 is the latest stable version. I believe there is a thread by eyeballer that walks you through the steps, or if your'e a Windows user, you could watch this video.
Good luck!
funny _ i have the same issue but my battery never ran out - just started happening after I transfered some music to my SD CARD.. If I take the SD Card out upon a reboot, the NC boots fine.
Not sure but when I keep the SD card in - the boot stays at Power of Reading?
OK, I've seen this twice (so it isn't complete death) but wanted to see if anyone else had any ideas. I've done a complete shut down (power button for 8 sec) and then couldn't get it to turn back on. When this is happening, I can plug it in and see the green charging light. Holding the power button then for 8 sec will make the green light go out. Pushing it again, light comes on. So the button is working... If i leave it for awhile, the nook will then reboot and appear to work normally...
Rooted, stock, 2.0.5
dbh369 said:
OK, I've seen this twice (so it isn't complete death) but wanted to see if anyone else had any ideas. I've done a complete shut down (power button for 8 sec) and then couldn't get it to turn back on. When this is happening, I can plug it in and see the green charging light. Holding the power button then for 8 sec will make the green light go out. Pushing it again, light comes on. So the button is working... If i leave it for awhile, the nook will then reboot and appear to work normally...
Rooted, stock, 2.0.5
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If your device battery level is below 10 percent it will not turn on until it charges up to at leat 15 percent level. Then it will turn on.
hwong96 said:
If your device battery level is below 10 percent it will not turn on until it charges up to at leat 15 percent level. Then it will turn on.
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I think that is the mechanism stopping it, but it is malfunctioning, I'm at about 90% this last time...
Is there ther equivalent of 'battery stats' somewhere that can be affecting this? or is this hardware? It should be turning on fine at 80-90% but no. However, plug in for 10 mins and it works fine. So that seems to be the problem.
dbh369 said:
I think that is the mechanism stopping it, but it is malfunctioning, I'm at about 90% this last time...
Is there ther equivalent of 'battery stats' somewhere that can be affecting this? or is this hardware? It should be turning on fine at 80-90% but no. However, plug in for 10 mins and it works fine. So that seems to be the problem.
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OK, this is getting worse, I'm now at 100% charge and it happened. Weirder still, if I leave it plugged in for awhile, it will reboot on its own.
I have not had this happen on my HD but something similar has happened on my HD+. It seems to be related to whether an SD is plugged in. I have to take the SD out, press power off for a while, then release and momentarily press power again.
I know on the Nook Colors, they would not turn on unless it could find the boot files to boot from. So if a user formatted his internal boot partition by mistake, it would not turn on unless a bootable SD with active boot files was in the slot. Something akin to this may be happening, only in reverse.
Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
Huh- will try removing the sd next time- it is a nd plus. Of course then how sui I boot to sd?
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dbh369 said:
Huh- will try removing the sd next time- it is a nd plus. Of course then how sui I boot to sd?
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Once I got it booting, then I could put the SD back in and boot to it.
(And your thread title says HD).
Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
leapinlar said:
(And your thread title says HD).
Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
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Fixed
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leapinlar said:
Once I got it booting, then I could put the SD back in and boot to it.
Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
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OK, this seems to have worked. I tried to change the partition of my CWM SD card using EaseUS, but that seemed to make it no bootable, and removing it does seem to have worked. Now I can boot a new reimaged CWM card.
Thanks!
Good to hear that your nook is working again.
It seems i am having a similar issue, only a little more severe.
I described it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2088893
leapinlar said:
It seems to be related to whether an SD is plugged in. I have to take the SD out, press power off for a while, then release and momentarily press power again.
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Something similar happened to my HD+ running the 12/31 build of verygreen's CM. In my case, I think it was precipitated by the battery draining too far first, though. Very weird and a little spooky, but glad there's a workaround.
Wow, this is dumb. I can't believe a badly-formatted SD would cause it to look like it's broken. Put a message up or something. Thanks for the help, thought something was really wrong!
Nook HD Plus won't charge
I've seen dozens of reports of this. The symptoms are all about the same.
The unit drains the battery, even if you plug it in, it still drains, so although the charger and cable are fine, something inside the Nook doesn't get the memo.
It drains down to the point where it turns off. Then every time you plug it in, the light goes green, then amber, then off. The battery never charges.
I tried taking the unit apart and disconnecting the battery overnight, but that didn't seem to help. I suspect something in the software gets in a "vapor lock" where a dead battery condition is mistaken for a fully-charged battery condition. I only paid $109 for it refurbished, so it isn't worth another $60 for a new battery, and I don't think there is anything wrong with this battery.
If I knew the pinouts of the battery connector, I might try charging it without going through the Nook. Perhaps if it was actually fully charged, the "vapor" would realign.
Does anyone have another idea, apart from the nitwit stuff Barnes & Noble allows on its forums, like "push the cable in harder" or try another adapter. I notice they aren't interested in entertaining any idea that their firmware is at fault.
It will not charge when plugged in if OTG USB is activated (e.g., to connect a USB keyboard). That's happened to me a few times using unofficial VG CM versions where the USB state can be changed inadvertently from a pull down drawer. If the USB isn't toggled back to normal in time to recharge the battery before its completely discharged, it might not be revivable.
Sent from HD+ MAG2GA CM 11 from SD
dbh369 said:
OK, I've seen this twice (so it isn't complete death) but wanted to see if anyone else had any ideas. I've done a complete shut down (power button for 8 sec) and then couldn't get it to turn back on. When this is happening, I can plug it in and see the green charging light. Holding the power button then for 8 sec will make the green light go out. Pushing it again, light comes on. So the button is working... If i leave it for awhile, the nook will then reboot and appear to work normally...
Rooted, stock, 2.0.5
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I've the same problem, except even if I leave it a while, it doesn't boot or even appear to start. Is there something wrong with the battery or display? It was working perfectly fine until suddenly the screen froze and I had to do a complete shut down.
I cant get my nook to turn on. I try charging it and a little green light comes on at the bottom and stays on for about 3 seconds and then a orange light comes on for about 3 seconds and then it shuts off. I dont know if the light is supposed to stay on while it is charging. Sometimes it comes up with a dead battery sign but it just goes right back off.
TiffanyLandis95 said:
I cant get my nook to turn on. I try charging it and a little green light comes on at the bottom and stays on for about 3 seconds and then a orange light comes on for about 3 seconds and then it shuts off. I dont know if the light is supposed to stay on while it is charging. Sometimes it comes up with a dead battery sign but it just goes right back off.
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Have you tried charging it with its wall-charger for an extended period (8+ hours)?
I'm getting constant times when my nook HD+ just shuts down, it first happened in cm11 the 9/11 nightly, it would shut off when I went on certain web pages and on YouTube, then it would shut off when I tried to change the wallpaper. It would then shut off at the cm boot logo after about 2 seconds,only being able to boot fully after repeating about 4 times. So I did a factory reset and reinstalled the rom, but then when I tried to install gapps the device would shut off, so I went in did factory reset again and formatted system, installed the ROM and gapps fine this time but the first time it still shut off at the cm boot logo, its now booted back into cm 11 the second time but still getting shut off's when I try to apply wallpaper etc.
I've re installed the stock ROM and I'm still getting random shut downs and its saying my battery is 1% when its fully charged
can anybody help please ?
same here
neontigers said:
I'm getting constant times when my nook HD+ just shuts down, it first happened in cm11 the 9/11 nightly, it would shut off when I went on certain web pages and on YouTube, then it would shut off when I tried to change the wallpaper. It would then shut off at the cm boot logo after about 2 seconds,only being able to boot fully after repeating about 4 times. So I did a factory reset and reinstalled the rom, but then when I tried to install gapps the device would shut off, so I went in did factory reset again and formatted system, installed the ROM and gapps fine this time but the first time it still shut off at the cm boot logo, its now booted back into cm 11 the second time but still getting shut off's when I try to apply wallpaper etc.
I've re installed the stock ROM and I'm still getting random shut downs and its saying my battery is 1% when its fully charged
can anybody help please ?
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i have been having this issue for like two months now. it all started when my daughter ran the tablet out totaly. took a good three days of tinkering before it would actualy take a charge. now i get constant shut downs, flickering screen. will say im 100 percent charge and when take the cable out it will go down to 1% i dont think the battery is bad because sometimes it will actualy hold the charge.
Could be the power connector or at least somewhere along the power path. My old kindle had what looked like battery issues which was actually the cable itself at the port that was a bit loose and a different cable had fixed it - it even said it was fully charged but drained 4x faster (give or take). After the fix the battery life was normal again.
Its would be incredibly confusing [to me] if draining all life from the battery is the cause of your problems as I do it often with all phones/tablets (and others do it) and its never caused me a problem not even once. I do it on purpose not accidental.
More likely a coincidence and not the actual cause and the issue is that something was damaged or going bad. It doesn't sound like a software problem. And since it appears to be battery related that would likely be the battery or related path such as the power cable, port, wall plug.
Since its made by humans, I'm going to say if it turns green fully charged then its not necessarily anywhere near fully charged especially if the incoming power wasn't the proper amount, it could potentially be thrown off and confused instead of what one would expect happening that of either/or.
Wrong or right there's my best guess. Do with it what you will.
Adding if its still under warranty (I would assume), according to leapinlar, BN will give you a new power cable if that's the problem, or same with the device (as I took advantage of for hardware defect).
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Adding if its still under warranty (I would assume), according to leapinlar, BN will give you a new power cable if that's the problem, or same with the device (as I took advantage of for hardware defect).
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They will only give you a new cable if it is still in the warranty period AND it still is running stock. You may get by with just taking the cable in, and if they can demonstrate it is defective, get a new one. But if you bring the device in with CM on it the warranty goes bye-bye. So if you take it in, be sure stock is on it.
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*gasp* the rest of it. Thanks for the correction there.
GOT IT
So i took it apart thinking i would replace the battery. Didn't end up having to. i disconnected the battery from the main board, then plugged it back in. tablet fired up and showed 100% battery. haven't had a single issue since. :good::good::good:
I've read through about 20 threads about similar issues, but I can not find any way to solve my problem.
My Nook has cyanogenmod installed on it (i think version 10, but I don't remember). I had installed it a long time ago, and the nook was working perfectly, never had any problems with it.
Well, I had it put away for several months without using it, and now it won't turn on anymore. I left it charging overnight, using the official wall charger that came with it.
When I push the power button, the screen will come on and show the battery picture for a few seconds, and the led near the charging port will change colors between orange and green.
I have tried pressing every combination of buttons, and holding them for different lengths of time, including upwards of 30 seconds, probably about a hundred times. I even followed advice to hold the power and n buttons down for a full 5 minutes. Nothing.
Is there ANYTHING else I could possibly try here, or is this thing dead?
You can remove the battery and recharge it with an external charger. Then reinstall it. Don't let the battery become fully depleted to avoid need for the external charger.
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It happens to some of my HD+ when the battery drained ...
Just plug in the charger awhile ... then hold "power" for a few secs while holding the "Home" key (upside down U) ...