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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.
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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.
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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...
I just wanted to get root access and Auto-Nooter 2.12.25 for v1.0.1 seemed to be the way to go, right? Well, after I purchased the last Nook Color from Best Buy yesterday and brought it home, I charged it to 100%, played with it loaded up and ran Auto-Nooter from a Sandisk mSD card. When I plugged in the cable to boot, it came up with the battery low-wait 15min screen. (Battery was at 100%) Tried again, same thing. Re-wrote Auto-Nooter to mSD card and tried again, black screen. Nothing. Bricked. What I do get is a black screen with a flash of backlight every 40 seconds or so. I re-created the boot SD Auto-Nooter (using Win32DiskImager) and boot, nothing.
Today same story, just wasted 5 hours trying: Auto-Nooter, Clockwork Recovery image (2gb & 1gb versions on different cards) with complete restore-1.0.1 and repartition-boot-with-stock.zip, Nookie-Froyo.......nothing brings up any life in the NC.
I did follow RileyGrant's "Dummies Guide to Fixing 'My Nook Won't Boot'" http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699 to no avail. I do not believe it is a partition issue. If it were, the mSD would at least try to boot to some screen and perhaps hang then. But CWR is not providing a spark at all.
I do believe it is in a boot loop of some sort, trying to boot, screen flashes, turns off, repeat continuously if plugged in. (It does stop the cycle after a while when not plugged in.)
Is that enough information? Ideas??
When you insert the Clockworkmod Recovery sdcard and turn the nook on, Does it boot into CWR?
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When you insert the Clockworkmod Recovery sdcard and turn the nook on, Does it boot into CWR?
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No. It boots to nothing. Plug in, wait 10 seconds, a white screen flash (less than a second) then black. Repeats in about 40 seconds. I can tell that the backlight is on for about 30 seconds, back lighting a black screen, then it turns off. A few seconds later the screen flashes white and it is what seems to be a boot loop of not booting.
Create this Sdcard with the files here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
When you are done, connect your Nook with the SD card inside and make sure you press the power button until you hear it disconnect even tho its still plugged in. (This means its turned off) Then power it up. You should be in recovery. Make a full wipe and see if it turns back on. If it doesn't send me message. I'll be glad to help. Your Nook is fine.
Here are better instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Fixter said:
Create this Sdcard with the files here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
When you are done, connect your Nook with the SD card inside and make sure you press the power button until you hear it disconnect even tho its still plugged in. (This means its turned off) Then power it up. You should be in recovery. Make a full wipe and see if it turns back on. If it doesn't send me message. I'll be glad to help. Your Nook is fine.
Here are better instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
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Have done all this. Will not go into recovery. Ideas? (PM sent)
Sounds to me like your battery is dead (it would NOT go from 100% to 15% like you say), or you're not burning the cards right.
khaytsus said:
Sounds to me like your battery is dead (it would NOT go from 100% to 15% like you say), or you're not burning the cards right.
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I followed the Auto Nooter instructions to the letter. I would agree with both except:
1) After the first time I tried Auto Nooter, and it said 15% battery, I took the card out and it booted normal. I checked the battery and it was at 99%. Repeated the process and the same result. (Batt at 15% when trying to root, 99% when not.) I re-built the card and then nook bricked.
2) I have used 2 different cards on 2 computers with 2 different softwares for burning the image. Perhaps the second burn on the uSD card fried something? Perhaps, but the card still was readable by Windoz 7 on either computer. One bad apple can spoil the bunch.......
Heading back to BestBuy is sounding better all the time even though it is 40 min away. That said, I have still not lost faith in XDA and the great help. Anyone with a new suggestion?
IMO you just have a dead battery, plug into the wall and leave overnight. The Nooks ability to boot into sdcard first is built into the hardware, nothing you did could of messed this ability up. If you truly can't boot into clockwork from sdcard it can only really be a hardware failure.
carmicp said:
I followed the Auto Nooter instructions to the letter. I would agree with both except:
1) After the first time I tried Auto Nooter, and it said 15% battery, I took the card out and it booted normal. I checked the battery and it was at 99%. Repeated the process and the same result. (Batt at 15% when trying to root, 99% when not.) I re-built the card and then nook bricked.
2) I have used 2 different cards on 2 computers with 2 different softwares for burning the image. Perhaps the second burn on the uSD card fried something? Perhaps, but the card still was readable by Windoz 7 on either computer. One bad apple can spoil the bunch.......
Heading back to BestBuy is sounding better all the time even though it is 40 min away. That said, I have still not lost faith in XDA and the great help. Anyone with a new suggestion?
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make sure as well you are creating the SD correctly. WinImage can be a pain at times at times. If the bootable SD isnt created just right it wont boot. Im putting up a post in a few minutes to an IMG you might like to try to recover your NC.
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11321261#post11321261
Its how I have been rooting my devices, as well, I will be adding the prerooted 1.1 to my IMG soon to simplify things for everyone.
forsakenexile, I appreciate this and am downloading the file now overnight. Perhaps this will solve problems of my NC not booting up ANY rom/recovery solutions from SD, despite all the documented methods known to the community so far.
One thing I noticed under Win7 was to get an image to work properly I had to run winimage as administrator. Not sure if this is just an oddity with my computer or common knowledge I had to discover for myself.
I threw in the rowel
I charged the nook over night with the genuine nook charger and genuine nook cable and no difference this morning. I took it back to BestBuy and waked out with a new one. I charged it, powered up, logged in, powered down, inserted a monster root pack 7 uSD and booted no problem!
Thanks to all for the help in troubleshooting.
Note to self: Nook can be a brick!
I know there's a lot of thread about nook color not power on and i have searched the forum. My nook color won't power and i cant get into CWR or see the boot animation "the future of reading". I charged my nook over night and tried to hold down the POWER button for more than 20 seconds but without luck. I also tried to load from the sd card but the computer wouldnt recognize my nook since theres no power. Any help before i return this to BN since I'm still within the 14 days period?
Seems to be a common problem tonight.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=986092
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=985975
zizoty said:
I know there's a lot of thread about nook color not power on and i have searched the forum. My nook color won't power and i cant get into CWR or see the boot animation "the future of reading". I charged my nook over night and tried to hold down the POWER button for more than 20 seconds but without luck. I also tried to load from the sd card but the computer wouldnt recognize my nook since theres no power. Any help before i return this to BN since I'm still within the 14 days period?
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Wait what do you mean by "I also tried to load from the sd card but the computer wouldnt recognize my nook since theres no power."
Have you Burned a CWR SD card yet and tried to boot off the SD card???
Chances are you have just screwed up your boot Partition and while the Nook will power on your not going to get anywhere or see the screen come on if the boot is messed up.
Please FULLY Read. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
If you have done everything to the letter on that thread, then you might have A hardware issue that will need to be exchanged but 99% of "nook wont boot" problems are just problems with the internal memory being messed up and a CWR SD card can fix it.
ive noticed that the nook can sometimes be very unresponsive to powering on. try some random combinations of plugging and unplugging your usb to it and powering it on.
I burned 8gb recovery image into the sd-card and it work. The key to get it work is to plug the usb to your nook first and then to the computer. After you plug into the computer, HOLD POWER AND N BUTTON FOR 20 SECONDS!!!!!!. thanks everyone!
Nook Color: no power on - Battery to low, but no charging possible
I've got a Nook Color via ebay Germany and I rooted it (Autonooter).
For a few weeks I had a great device!!
2 days ago - battery was low - I wanted to have a look onto the worldnews, just for a few minutes. At this moment a software update (from B&N?) began to work.
After this battery was completely empty.
And since this moment I cannot charge or boot my NC.
From time to time there is the Android starting screen with robot or, sometimes, the note, that battery is too low to power on - please wait 15 minutes.
What can I do? Now I'm waiting and charging 2280 minutes.
I'm using original B&N-cable in wall or computer an tried other micro-usb's.
Restore to stock witout power - I don't know how it works. I'm bloody beginner in Android devices and was so glad, that my rooting (with a lot of helpful threads and youtube videos) was successful.
The last 2 days I read a lot of clockwork and restore to stock. How do it work without power?
Please could someone help me? Thanks!!
I had the same problem, I let it sit for a while and re-tried powering on after about an hour and it worked. Good luck.
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?
Sent from my BNTV600 using xda app-developers app
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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
Sent from my BNTV600 using xda app-developers app
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.
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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)?
So... I had my Nook HD+ plugged in to my laptop for adding new video files. I went to unplug it, and it said something about "Powering Off" on the screen. I waited until it was off for about 2 minutes, then tried turning it back on. First by a quick press of the power, because I didn't realize it had completely turned off, as it had never done that before when I unplug it. Then I have been trying full 10-second press of power, and several tries, NO POWER! I have no idea what the heck happened, I have been using this tablet with the new CM10 version mod, and have not had any issues. I usually have it in sleep mode and on the charger cord. I was getting ready for a day trip in the morning, and now it's like a paperweight.
PLEASE HELP!
When you plug in the charging cable, does the LED light register anything at all?
Rather obvious but you have tried plugging it in to the mains for at least 10 minutes?
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Rather obvious but you have tried plugging it in to the mains for at least 10 minutes?
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I assume you mean the charger? I had it charged to 75%-80% before I'd put the new videos on it, so I didn't think that had anything to do with it, it shouldn't have been dead already, but I did plug it in to the charger so it went to full power, and for a long time it just showed a battery with a bolt on the black screen, but now it appears to be working. Thanks
Try removing your SDCard and turn it back on, welcome to the weird world of Nook. Put the card back in once it has booted up. Can you let me know if this at least lets you boot.
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Try removing your SDCard and turn it back on, welcome to the weird world of Nook. Put the card back in once it has booted up. Can you let me know if this at least lets you boot.
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Well, since I already got it working again, I will just hold on to your suggestion for when it crashes on me again...