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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.

Touch the future of reading

Currently I am running nookie froyo 0.6.8 from the internal rom but I am having the following problem even when I had eclair with autonooter. When I am turning off my nook for the night, in the morning I am stuck at the "Touch the future..." screen and I can only boot through clockwork recovery and choose reboot. I think that it started when I flashed clockwork for the first time, but I am not sure. Any ideas?

aposva said:
Currently I am running nookie froyo 0.6.8 from the internal rom but I am having the following problem even when I had eclair with autonooter. When I am turning off my nook for the night, in the morning I am stuck at the "Touch the future..." screen and I can only boot through clockwork recovery and choose reboot. I think that it started when I flashed clockwork for the first time, but I am not sure. Any ideas?
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I am searching the forums to find an answer to the same problem. I am running stock eclair that has been autonootered. I don't have clockwork installed. I can always boot with the sdcard to Honeycomb.. sometimes I can then reboot back into Eclair.

i had this one time, i try the 8 failed boot's to restore, didn't restore but rebooted to eclair!

arf, i'm having the same problem after all..

I had the same thing happen to me had to reformat cache if I wanted to boot into froyo,its a great system but that one problem did me in went back to stock and rooted the NC and plan on staying this way I just give up flash.Looked all over for fix or someone to explain why but never did get an answer sorry i couldnt help you but if i find answer will let you know

ok will look forward when i have time
At this point i can boot by pressing power + n for 30s, it boot to recovery, then i choose "reboot"

Yes that's right, this is the only way I can boot too (power but. + n).

when rebooted i lower setcpu to 1ghz max. it seems to help to boot ..

There are some really good unbricking//"my nook won't boot" sort of threads to be found in the developers section; but this one should be more than enough to fix your issues:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Additionally, I find that reflashing to a stock ROM or restoring a previous working backup image from CWM is the best way to go about it. Good luck!

I have the same problem too. Just remove the SD card on power on (reboot with software is OK)
Looking for better fix.

Taeseong said:
There are some really good unbricking//"my nook won't boot" sort of threads to be found in the developers section; but this one should be more than enough to fix your issues:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Additionally, I find that reflashing to a stock ROM or restoring a previous working backup image from CWM is the best way to go about it. Good luck!
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Thx, I'll take a look at that if I ever have booting issues.

Think this is caused by the recovery image. Upgrade your recovery to the latest version 3.0.1.0 and see if that fixes it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971197

Going to try that today ..I just looked and i do have an older recovery file so maybe that is the problem will report back later on it.

Did the update, I will shut it off for the night and will check it in the morning.
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I also read CWR does not get along with 1.1..I just updated CWR and it still did the same thing what Im going to do now is clean restore then custom froyo then after setup go to market get rom manager install reboot into recovery and then install the remove crw with root file.

I downloaded the restore to stock zip file. Put it on the sd card. Then used the power and "n" to get to the butloader. Chose install from sd card and it installed. Back to operational!

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)

Can ROM Manager reinstall 1.4.1?

My situation is this: I went through all the instructions to flash Cyanogen to my NC and started out with the 7.1 stable build. Then later I flashed again, this time to 7.2. Everything is working fine. But I'm just finding that there are little quirks to the Nook Reader for Android that make me like the stock Nook Color better. So I decided to follow the instructions to flash back to stock.
However, when I booted into CWM from my sd card, I get the menu and can scroll around in it. But none of the menu options actually work. When I select an option all I get is the black hat with the circular orange arrow icon and nothing happens. I can't get to the menu where I'm supposed to wipe data etc. The backup function doesn't work either. the So I booted back into Cyanogen then used rom manager to tell it to reboot into recovery. Same result as booting from the SD card. I can get to the menu but nothing actually works. Back in CM7.2 again I used the option in ROM manager to back up the existing ROM. It rebooted into CWM and did the backup successfully, even though backup doesn't work if I try to do it directly from CWM.
Everything still works fine from CM7.2. It just seems to be CWM that's flaky whether I boot it from the device itself or from the SD card. Sending CWM a command from inside ROM manager does work. I've tried both backups and flashing a new CM7 version from there and it works.
Is it possible to get around this by using the install update from sd functionality in ROM manager to re-flash the B&N 1.4.1 ROM?

Are you using the “n” key to select the options in CWM? The black hat with the orange arrow comes up if you are pressing the power button to try to select an option
Yes, you can flash the 1.4.1 ROM from ROM Manager, just download the file from HERE so that it will keep CWM

GMPOWER said:
Are you using the “n” key to select the options in CWM? The black hat with the orange arrow comes up if you are pressing the power button to try to select an option
Yes, you can flash the 1.4.1 ROM from ROM Manager, just download the file from HERE so that it will keep CWM
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D'oh.....ok, I didn't know that. But I could swear I used the power button when I was originally flashing CM7. But, if I can just do it from ROM manager, that's easier anyway.
Thanks!
Edit. Question: Is there anywhere else those files can be downloaded? Firefox was telling me the download time was predicted to be over 3 hours. Then it only got through 3.3 MB before crapping out. Trying it again now and its saying I'm downloading at 10 KB/sec. Uggg. Might be easier to just go with the SD card route afterall.

ratman6161 said:
D'oh.....ok, I didn't know that. But I could swear I used the power button when I was originally flashing CM7. But, if I can just do it from ROM manager, that's easier anyway.
Thanks!
Edit. Question: Is there anywhere else those files can be downloaded? Firefox was telling me the download time was predicted to be over 3 hours. Then it only got through 3.3 MB before crapping out. Trying it again now and its saying I'm downloading at 10 KB/sec. Uggg. Might be easier to just go with the SD card route afterall.
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I put together my own version, give this a try, LINK

GMPOWER said:
I put together my own version, give this a try, LINK
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I eventually got one of the other links to work. Flashed back to 1.4.1 from rom manager and it works like a charm. Thanks for the hel[p.

Bootable ClockWorkMod on SD card can flash roms to the nook, right?

I put ClockWorkMod recovery on a bootable SD card and used it to put ManualNooter on my nook. But the environment ManualNooter gives me is super lame, so I wanted to replace the stock walled-garden Android with Cyanogenmod7.2 (or even better, a Honeycomb rom if anyone can find me one), and be able to install the google apps .zip that has market in it. Bootable CWM on SD can do this, right?

yanom said:
I put ClockWorkMod recovery on a bootable SD card and used it to put ManualNooter on my nook. But the environment ManualNooter gives me is super lame, so I wanted to replace the stock walled-garden Android with Cyanogenmod7.2 (or even better, a Honeycomb rom if anyone can find me one), and be able to install the google apps .zip that has market in it. Bootable CWM on SD can do this, right?
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Yes, the bootable CWM SD can flash things to the internal memory of the nook. CM7.2 (gingerbread android) is very stable. There is no stable Honeycomb for the nook. Google never released the source code for that so all versions for the nook are terrible. But there is Ice Cream Sandwich (CM9) which is the next higher version of android above honeycomb. It is still under development so is not as stable as CM7, but head and shoulders above honeycomb. You can get that following this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=909
And you can flash gapps with the CWM card too.

Ok, I tried that an before I even got to the CWM menu (where it lets you select "select zip from sdcard", etc), it hung on the skull-and-crossbones LOADING menu. Been like this for 15 minutes now. This exact same CWM card worked when I flashed ManualNooter, but it's hung now. Problem is, how do I turn it off it doesn't seem possible to remove the battery from this thing.

yanom said:
Ok, I tried that an before I even got to the CWM menu (where it lets you select "select zip from sdcard", etc), it hung on the skull-and-crossbones LOADING menu. Been like this for 15 minutes now. This exact same CWM card worked when I flashed ManualNooter, but it's hung now. Problem is, how do I turn it off it doesn't seem possible to remove the battery from this thing.
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Hold the power button for like 15 seconds until it totally powers off. Try using my CWM card found in my tips thread linked in my signature (item A10).
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leapinlar said:
Hold the power button for like 15 seconds until it totally powers off. Try using my CWM card found in my tips thread linked in my signature (item A10).
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
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THanks. I got it to work, but CM7.2 is full of bugs (no softbuttons or taskbar, for one). Looking around for other roms now. Thanks!

yanom said:
THanks. I got it to work, but CM7.2 is full of bugs (no softbuttons or taskbar, for one). Looking around for other roms now. Thanks!
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Then something is not right. There are no bugs in CM7.2. Did you factory reset with CWM before you flashed CM 7.2? You need too. You can still do it now and things will improve dramatically.
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leapinlar said:
Did you factory reset with CWM before you flashed CM 7.2? You need too. You can still do it now and things will improve dramatically.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
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Oh. Factory reset is safe? OK. Did not know. Will try this.
Also, I tried some of the ICS roms, but the'res a graphics bug - things that were on the screen previously do not get removed from the screen unless they get painted over. I'm an amateur game developer, so I liken it to drawing each successive frame without clearing the screen of the last frames. That's what it is, really. I tried with and without openGL and it still has the problem.