I got a used nook that had CM7 on it. Seeing that there were issues a week ago with the 1.3 root, I put 1.2 on it and rooted it. Now 1.3 is successfully rooted and all seems a go ... so I want it.
But how the heck do I get a rooted 1.2 Nook to get the update?
It's been on wifi with the B&N Shop and/or Home open for three days, nothing. I followed the steps on B&N's site to try to sideload the update. Nothing. I don't see a CWM flashable version out yet. Frustrating.
I could also factory reset back to 1.2 and try to let it load the 1.3 update - I assume that the MN still works with a stock 1.3 as well.
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I followed the steps on B&N's site to try to sideload the update. Nothing.
I could also factory reset back to 1.2 and try to let it load the 1.3 update - I assume that the MN still works with a stock 1.3 as well.
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Sideloading BN1.3 works for me. Describing EXACTLY how you sideload the update. The update needs to be copied to emmc.
I followed the instructions on B&N's site. I put the nookcolor_1_3_update.zip file and put it right on the root of the emmc (at least, the highest up directory the USB interface would let me place it on).
Having CWM on your internal recovery blocks the update. You can flash this file to get back to 100% stock (internal CWM or CWM card, doesn't matter):
update-nc-stock-1.2-signed.zip
Format /system and /data before you flash it. If you have apps and settings you want to restore after you update and root, make a backup first (you should anyway) and once you have CWM back, Advanced Restore /data only.
CWM is not installed on the emmc. I use bootable sdcard with CWM burned on it to do my flashing. I doubt this is the issue but if MN will work on a stock 1.3 install, it's easy enough to do.
I had also encountered a problem, but had worked around it.
It turned out that I had at one point flashed CWM to my emmc even though I was using an SD card to boot.
The update was failing each time, but I eventually noticed that it was going into clockwork during the restart and the install would fail.
I'd completely nuked the Nook (deleted boot, system, etc) while in CWM and restored a Nook 1.1 image I had.
This allowed me to then install the 1.3 update and have it reboot into the BN recovery instead of the CWM recovery.
Note, if you format boot, system and so on, you'll render the Nook unbootable without an SD card, so be sure to have the image ready to restore BEFORE you reboot it.
I ended up doing a factory reset and putting the nookcolor_1_3_update.zip on the root of the emmc. It updated immediately, but I of course lost my data. Oh well.
MN didn't really work, I fought with it over and over again, but finally got it working. I'm posted in the MN thread about it.
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Is there a way to get rid of the clockwork mod boot on the nook color
As per onstuctions on this site, I got a 1.1 pre roote version and installed it
from the sd card with the clockwork menu which informed me that the
"NookColor" install complete.
when I reboot, it starts with the welcome message,but then only reboots into the same recovery menu.
At this point I would just like to go back to a stock rom, but cannot boot anything but the recovery.
By the way, I can boot froyo from the sd card
Please help me
I've moved your thread to the correct forum.
So you dont have the CWR sdcard in? Because if you did, you would need to remove that first. Sorry if this dumb, but thats all I can think of right now. Maybe reflash the 1.1 pre rooted rom? Or follow the instructions in Samuelhalff's "Easily restore to stock" thread located here in the Nook forums.
The "Easily restore to stock" saved the day. I am now up and running.
Thanks
How did you do that? I have CWR on mine and I went to buy a book from the shop on the Nook and it downloaded and installed 1.1... Now when I try to go back and restore from backup CWR doesn't respond... All it does is sit there and if I select something from the menu it goes to the background image (the circle with the top hat) and sits there. I would like to remove this so I can reroot my Nook...
Thanks for any help.
Bob
See the other thread or sticky that's labeled "How to Restore to Stock easiliy." I believe you can also use the power down and on 8 times trick to restore to stock as well.
Same thing happened to me. I used Clockwork to flash the CWR-removal.zip on the restore thread mentioned above and it fixed my boot, everything else was OK.
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Same thing happened to me. I used Clockwork to flash the CWR-removal.zip on the restore thread mentioned above and it fixed my boot, everything else was OK.
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Ditto that. I reinstalled CW and everything seems to be working fine. Has anyone else had issues with using Rom Manager on the NC? I've had to go back to stock twice whenever I've used it.
I had a problem when trying to roll my 1.1 rooted NC back to stock because I futzed it up that I ended up in a CWR loop. 8 resets didn't get me a reflash, it got a recovery. Took me finally getting the NC flashed and rerooted at 1.1 a second time when I reinstalled ROM Manager and ended up with the problem again. Took me this wasted effort to realize that CWR runs in lieu of the reflash if CWR is installed and that's an obvious problem when I wanted a reflash and not restore a different backup.
There is a thread with a zip that CWR can run that blasts CWR off and reflashs stock and getting that done put me back both times I messed up above.
Seems to me that perhaps the whole "can never brick" response when people ask for help needs to have an addendum about how CWR gets in the way of an 8 reboot reflash and provide guidance on how to get that update file and use it instead to get back to square one. (Plus some advice on when to clear caches and data partitions to avoid weirdness later).
Now rerooted on 1.1 with no ROM Manager running but I'm missing the nandroid bacjup capability, so maybe I reinstall but stay away from the recovery option until I need it?
I reinstalled CW after I rerooted 1.1 and have had no problems with it so far, but I also haven't tried to backup or anything since the first time (which initially got me into this mess).
I do think you're right about having some sort of addendum thrown in. I was running circles around the XDA forums for a few hours trying to find some sort of fix the first time my Nook started acting weird. The 8-reboot trick just wouldn't work, and my battery was more or less drained because CW was interfering. Maybe this is just understood by most, but it certainly would have saved me some time (and some gray hairs) if someone had mentioned it earlier.
So what is the conclusion of this thread? I have a new NC, updated to 1.1 and installed AutoNooker 3.0, immediately installed Clockwork and did a NAND backup... bad thing is that it won't boot off the eMMC anymore, only CW.
I can boot roms off of the SD card (ie Honeycomb) but this isn't want I want. I've downloaded and flashed several roms but its looped at CW. So the rom isn't the problem.
If we can't install Clockwork Recovery, then how can we flash new roms to the eMMC?
[UPDATE]
Found a flashable file which removes Clockwork Recovery.
http://www.etoile-laconnex.com/CWR-removal-rootsafe.zip
After I flashed that I am now booting off the eMMC froyo rom. Nice! Saved me from Restoring it, updating it, and reRooting it.
[UPDATE 2]
Well while it worked initially, it loaded the homescreen and reset. Now it is stuck at the "Touch the Future of Reading" screen with no Recovery... which worse off. Now I have to make a CWM bootable SD, flash the restore, and start over. Nice.
[UPDATE 3]
Finally got it back to stock after hours. I found a "MonsterPack" here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
Even this was more complicated then it needed. I had to download the 128mb RootPack image, and get it going so I can grab the needed root files. Then download the right size Clockwork image for my memory card and get it going. The end result ended in a Clockwork SD card. Then I made a "sdcard" folder from where I added the rootpack files and the stock image 1.0.1 flashable zip file.
Format the system and boot partitions, then flash the stock zip.
I just upgraded stock to 1.1, then will proceed to boot off the microsd and root, install GAPPS, etc.
I wish I knew of a great custom rom to flash. I flashed Nookie Froyo 0.6.8 and it powers down immediately (several complaints about this). Maybe CM7?
Ditto
I'm having this problem as well, but I can't seem to do anything to fix it. I was running 1.1, and auto-nootered using v3.0. Everything was hunky dory until I installed CWR. I flashed, shutdown, restarted, then chose to perform a backup which brought me down into CWR and I was never able to get out. I used the Monster pack zip to remove CWR, and now I boot to the "n" screen and sit forever. I tried the 8 hard resets and it said it installed on two different occasions, but still I sit on the "n" screen during boot. I tried the 1.0.1 restore zip as well, but to no avail. What do I need to do to get back up and running?
CW Recovery only
So I flashed my NC with both the pre-dualboot and the dual-honeycomb rom, but every time I reboot with the SD card inserted, it only boots to CW recovery. When I take it out..it boots to NC stock OS.
Am I suppose to remove clockwork recovery with the CW-removal zip? I tried that.. once it rebooted it went right back to CW. Should I be using two different SD cards? One for CW recovery and one to load the eMMc?
So confused...
What I need to know is what should be on the SD card after everything is flashed.
Mw : you could use a bootable cwr sdcard and flash 'emmc recovery repair', then format data and restore your backup.
Ehamonn: you have to remove cwr from the sdcard. Format should do the trick. But you'll loose the data on it..
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Do I need to keep a boot image on the card after I format?
Well, if you only want to boot from internal memory, no.
Ok, so I installed cyanogen and wanted to go back to cupcake (some problems with compatibility for some apps). Made backups but lost them from file corruption. Even recent backups come up with MD5 sums mismatch on ClockworkMod Recovery. Can get cyanogen running again, but can't get back to ORIGINAL state.
I've tried hard booting 8x, I've tried running the script to change the bootcount but this just gets me to clockworkmod. I try running the factory reset/data wipe option, but it clearly doesn't remove cyanogen. When I reboot after this, I get stuck on the word ANDROID in blue. I've also tried sideloading a 1.1 version zip, all to no avail. Any suggestions? Would uninstalling clockworkmod help? Thanks.
Did you flash the 1.1 stock nook image with win32? Remember that in the 1.1 restore you just install "update.zip" through CWM. Are you sure that your original version was 1.1 and not 1.0.1? If all else fails, try a different SD card. Sometimes the SD card itself is the source of problems like this.
Factory resets won't do anything once you have flashed a new rom. You will have to restore it to stock. Nooks are very difficult to hard brick, so something should work.
No, I didn't flash it, just installed the update. My original version was 1.0, but would that make a difference? I wanted to go to 1.1 anyway. Tried a diff sd card, same problem. Any other suggestions?
No matter what I try, it seems cyanogen simply WON'T wipe. Even after formatting via clockwork, and after clockwork tells me it's successfully formatted, it still boots up as normal. I believe it's interfering with restoring to stock.
Solved
MUST uninstall clockwork mod. Finally worked after this step http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=960542&page=16 as per instructions here. Thanks everyone!
Hello, I guess I went in blind and screwed it up. Here's exactly what I did.
1. Created a bootable CWR SD card and used ManualRooter on my stock 1.2. Everything went perfectly. Checked Market and full app list etc.
2. Copied phiremod 6.2 to CWR card. Booted into Recovery. Wiped data/factory reset. Installed phiremod. No error so far. Wiped dalvik cache (not sure if I ran wipe cache partition). Then I turned it off, rebooted and the Nook is now stuck at the loading screen.
Of course, only then did I realize I got a nook with the new partitions (blue sticker). What should I do now? I was planning to try repartitioning but not sure if that would do more damage.
Any input? Thanks.
Fixed it Went ahead and installed the 2 repartition/reformat zips and installed phiremod on top. Everything is just peachy
hey itaintrite, i'm have a similar issue.
burned my working rom to sd so i could flash emmc to 1.2 manual nooter. prob now is when i boot from my sd it hangs at 'touch the future of reading.'
what's this 'repartition/reformat' zip you speak of?
raze
Similar problem....could use some help please!!
OK. Noob who is eternally grateful to all the awesome folks here. With your help I successfully rooted my EVO last summer. Now I have a problem with my new Nook Color. I successfully rooted (NC 1.2) it with ManualNooter, but now it won't accept any other ROMS. Runs MN fine, but I used ROM Manager to download and flash CM7.0.3, but it hangs at the "n COLOR" boot screen. Same exact result with Phirerom. I was able to restore to MN by somehow achieving the CM Recovery and restoring the Nand backup. Meanwhile, while I am unable to flash CM7, I AM able to boot into it from an SD card. Help, please.
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hey itaintrite, i'm have a similar issue.
burned my working rom to sd so i could flash emmc to 1.2 manual nooter. prob now is when i boot from my sd it hangs at 'touch the future of reading.'
what's this 'repartition/reformat' zip you speak of?
raze
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The repartition/reformat are in the thread that helps you repartition your 1.2 refurb nook to the older partition format. You can't install any custom roms otherwise.
I am having a similar issue. I rooted my new Blue Dot NC, I made my microSD card image with CW 3.2.0.1-eyeballer and ManualRooter 4.6.16 followed all instructions, and everything came out fine. installed apps, copied over books etc. all running fine. The problem is when I reboot the NC it will start rebooting and then get stuck cycling in the NOOK COLOR animation. I have to reset it, and re-register it with B&N and install ManualRooter again.
Any ideas why this happens? Could it be an app causing this??
I am rooting again and testing the reset before I add any apps, then app by app and see if something comes up.
Any help would be appreciated.
Rooted with manual nooter and everything worked fine. Then tried dalingrins overclock kernal and it wouldnt go past the N boot screen. Did the factory restore with zip file through Clockwork. Still wont boot passed N screen. I have tried holding power and N button and it wont reset. Tried the 8x failed boot and that wouldnt work either. What other options do I have?
You are not truly "bricked" till it won't boot from an sd card... Have you tried that yet?
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Rooted with manual nooter and everything worked fine. Then tried dalingrins overclock kernal and it wouldnt go past the N boot screen. Did the factory restore with zip file through Clockwork. Still wont boot passed N screen. I have tried holding power and N button and it wont reset. Tried the 8x failed boot and that wouldnt work either. What other options do I have?
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Remove Clockworkmod, then do the 8x reboot. If it doesn't work, that means you're not doing it correctly. Just keep trying.
Have you tried wiping and reflashing from a bootable sd?
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stevenjf88 said:
Rooted with manual nooter and everything worked fine. Then tried dalingrins overclock kernal and it wouldnt go past the N boot screen. Did the factory restore with zip file through Clockwork. Still wont boot passed N screen. I have tried holding power and N button and it wont reset. Tried the 8x failed boot and that wouldnt work either. What other options do I have?
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Did you get it from here?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1064095#13485473
Because there are other OC kernels which were designed for CM7 mods.....
To boot from SD, how can I do that if I remove Clockwork? Should I remove clockwork, flash the stock IMG on an sd and do a 8x boot?
If you are unable to get to your emmc clockwork recovery you need to make a clockwork recovery bootable SD card. It will boot your nook into CWR from the card. Instructions can be found in the development thread. Its not that hard. You just have to burn the image to a spare SD card.
Once you have that, you can flash whatever you like. If a backup of your prior 1.2 is not readily available you can try flashing an older version first (see "return to stock" thread in development) and then updating to 1.2 using the B&N official update. At least this is how I went about a fresh install several months ago just to clean house. You can proceed to manual nooter again.
OC kernels as mentioned before are specific to which build you are running ie froyo, CM7, stock etc. The link above are just stock 1.2 kernels modified to allow for overclocking and few other tweaks such as a different scheduler. Dal has overclock kernels available for 1.2 as well. That's what I use when running 1.2. Just make sure you grab the latest one that is specific for your setup. Hope this helps.
Edit: Here is the restore to stock thread link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
Two steps before flashing the stock zip is to format data and cache. It has an error when formatting data. I think this is why the stock flash didnt work the first time. Any suggestions?
What version of CWR are you booting to from the SD card? I have heard of this problem when trying to use older versions that don't have the proper extension support.
Figured out the issue. I did a factory reset by holding the power and home button down. Then I went into clockwork and installed the 1.0.1 recovery. I took out the sd and rebooted. That didnt work....
So I did teh factory reset again, installed 1.0.1 recovery, then Instead of removing the sd, I formatted it and rebooted. This worked perfect. For some reason it wouldnt boot without an SD in the slot. Even though it was formatted through CW.
Thanks for all yor help guys!
I would always get the error message on the first reboot after using a bootable SD card. I bet if you had just rebooted again without the card in place it would have fired right up. Glad you got it working!
When you get your rooted 1.2 setup again, make a nandroid backup and save a copy of the folder to your computer/jump drive or something. That way if you get bootlooped/borked again you can load that nandroid onto your bootable SD card and restore. Won't have to start all over again
Actually have one more issue. I'm trying to do the barnes and noble 1.2 update. Both of my computers recognize a drive but say to insert a disk when trying to drag the update file to them. If I go to device info on the nook it says I have 0.00mb of internal storage. I assume these two problems go together. Any ideas?
I believe both SD card and internal memory technically should be recognized. Unmount the SD card and remove it. It may be causing issues or interfering. Reconnect the device and it should mount the internal storage partition (5 GB). You can drop the update onto the root of this drive. This of course is assuming you don't have one of the newer nooks that has different size partitions (1 GB). Not sure how your restore process may have affected this.
Hi all,
I have run into one issue on my nook. I have had it for a while and followed all the directions for root and it was running perfect. One day it rebooted and would nver start back up. It gets stuck in the Nook Color Devs Boot Loop where it says Nook, then color in a rainbow scheme. I attempted to reload the factory image, ran the first manual nooter and logged into gmail, etc. Then I ran the second nooter and now I am stuck in a boot loop again. Is there anyway to solve this?
A factory reset appears to help but as soon as I root, the same thing happens. I have attempted to search but couldn't find anything else.
I also found out that if I clear dalvik and cache then it won't go immediately to the boot loop. It attempts to load but i am not sure what to do.
Thanks all.
You may want to specify which version of Stock you're reloading. I don't know for sure, but there may be some different procedures if you're on 1.3... But I don't know, just a tip for people to give you more specific help.
Thank you. This has happened to me on both the1.2 and 1.3 stock rom. It actually just shut off one day and then started doing this.
I'm not very familiar with the stock rom. I got rid of it within like 10 minutes of getting my nook, turning it into a tablet was my whole reason for buying one.
I didn't think there was more than one root script that you had to run though. At least not for 1.2, I dunno about 1.3 though.
Perhaps something there's messing it up?
Personally, I would suggest following one of the threads about restoring to stock... step by step and see if that helps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13198961#post13198961
Basically... just make a bootable cwm card. Make a backup of what you have atm. Copy the zip you download from that thread to your card. Boot your cwm card and goto mounts and storage, and format: /system, /data, /cache, and I would do /boot just in case. Normally, you shouldn't format boot... but just in case something there is causing you a problem it might be best. I know the stock rom restores the boot files anyway. Then just go to (sorry if the wording here isn't right, I don't have my nook in front of me) install zip from card, then select zip, and choose the 1.2 zip you put on the card. It should take like 5-10 mins to flash... remove the bootable sdcard, and choose reboot now. This should get you back to 100% stock 1.2, then you can retry rooting it... I think 1.2 needs the manual nooter script. You shouldn't have to run anything more than once to root it though, unless you upgrade after that to 1.3.
I had the same problem after getting the 1.3 update and re-rooting. The problem was adobe flash 10.3. I ran flashplayer_fix.zip from GMPOWER's post on this page (sorry don't know how to link the post) and it fixed the problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1208896#
I had the same problem after getting the 1.3 update and re-rooting. The problem was adobe flash 10.3. I ran flashplayer_fix.zip from GMPOWER's post on this page (sorry don't know how to link the post) and it fixed the problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1208896#