On my eMMC I have a stock Nook Color OS which is rooted. Worked great for quite a while. Last night I force shut it down (held the power button for 10 seconds).
Today I'm trying to boot it back up and it won't boot. I see the "Reading Forever" logo, then the "Nook Color" logo (believe from the rooting) comes up. That logo animates once, then it repeats, but stops at "Nook Co" stops, and the just keeps looping like that forever. Never finishes booting up.
Now I can boot up with my CWR SD card and also from my CM7 SD card. I'm hoping there might be some easy fix to be able to boot my stock rooted image again without having to wipe it out and starting over. Should I clear some cache or some other idea?
Thanks.
Update: I decided to just go ahead and blow way the install and do a factory wipe and reload and reroot it again. After I did this, I started wondering, I had Nook OS 1.2 installed and rooted. I wonder if 1.3 might have automatically installed on me and blown up because of the root? *shrug* Well, don't matter now. I started over.
Wow... after wiping it and starting over. It happened again.
Everything was going well. Rooted successfully, Market mostly working, installed a few apps. Rebooted a few times without issue. Then I noticed some apps were missing from the Market that should be there (no ADW.Launcher) so I was doing the normal Market fix. Shut down. Powered up, now it's hanging again on that "Nook Color" animated logo.
Argh! Maybe it's a sign I need a Kindle Fire. Haha.
Did another factor wipe. Rooted it again. All going well. And finally once again tried to do the Market fix. Cleared the Market cache, cleared the Framework data. Powered off. And again it won't boot back up.
This is so weird. I've done that millions of times before without issue.
Curious. Tried again after another factory wipe. And this time I decided to not bother with the Market app. All is going well. Until I reboot after the newest Market (with the music section) installs. It's all fubar again.
Could be the reason it blew up in the first place too. Hmm... Wondering if anyone has been able to reboot their rooted Nook Color since getting this new Market without issue?
Search the forums, there is a thread on this issue, you have to keep it from updating Adobe flash I think. I had this problem too, but haven't had time to root again and check for myself.
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The issue I'm having definitely seems to have the exact same symptoms those with the Flash Player issue are having.
But I never installed or updated Flash, manually anyway. And I installed the Flash Player fix and it still didn't fix my boot up problem. Bummer, thought it was going to be it.
I think I'll do another factory wipe, go through the process again. And when I see the Market update (kinda still my only suspect at the moment), I'll go in and uninstall that update and reboot and see what happens.
It's the Adobe AIR update. Argh.
I had gone through my factor wipe/root process again, I immediately uninstalled the Market update as soon as it came. Also looked for Flash Player and it isn't installed. Rebooted and it still blew up.
So I went through the start over process again. And since an Adobe Flash Player updated caused problems similar to mine and while I don't have Flash, I do have Adobe AIR and it happens to be updating after I run Market. So this time I was able to cancel that Adobe AIR update. Rebooted. And it is still working.
Apparently that Flash Player Fix tool doesn't seem to work with Adobe AIR and that update is breaking my Nook Color.
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I've had my NC rooted for 3 weeks. No probs. I decided to update to 1.0.1 to see if wifi was better and so I entered the adb command to force system update and all seemed to be well. After that it went into a boot loop.
I forced another "update" by powering down 8x during bootup. It reinstalled and then same problem. I then tried the directions at nookdevs to fix boot loops. I couldn't ssh into the NC, but to my surprise I could use adb, but I can't do the listed commands because I get "permission denied".
I did an adb logcat and I get nonstop info going by, mostly looking for stuff that shouldn't be there anymore, i.e. apps I loaded when it was rooted. Dalvik cache??
So, long story short, I've tried a system wipe 4x now and I'm stuck in an endless boot loop BUT I do have adb access. What now?
Power, +, N button doesn't work either?
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Power, +, N button doesn't work either?
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Haha. Good call. That did work. Bigtime brain fart. Trying all the hard stuff and not the easiest. What's the diff between the two methods?
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Haha. Good call. That did work. Bigtime brain fart. Trying all the hard stuff and not the easiest. What's the diff between the two methods?
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Head over to Nook Devs for the breakdown of the two.. Both methods are requied for using the newest AutoNooter... Glad to hear the device is still in working order.
Stuck in Boot Loop
Noob here with a problem. I’ve had my NC rooted for 5 days and the rooting went well. I had all my favorite android apps up and running. However I was experiencing random reboots (2-3 times per day). So, I decided to unroot and let the 1.0.1 update install and then I was going to use Auto-Nooter 2.12.18 to get everything back.
I did the 8X reboot thing and after reloaded, the NC went into a boot loop. The first thing I tried to do was the n, volume+ and power button. It simply went back to the boot loop.
I immediately put the auto-nooter sdcard in the NC, plugged in the usb to the pc. As opposed to the other times I did this, I got no visual indication that the PC recognized or activated the NC. I waited the full 5 minutes and removed it. The boot animation had changed, but the NC stayed in the boot loop.
I then searched and found this on nookdev.com (nookdevs.com/NookColor_Fix_Boot_Loops ). Following the instructions there, I installed putty.exe in the same folder as adb.exe. Putty would start and the session window would open, but I could not type or paste anything into the ssh screen. I assumed I had a bad download so I redid that and the install – no luck. I then searched and found another site from which I could download putty.exe, same results.
Before I ejected the NC I opened the command line window and I did adb devices and it came back with nothing. So now my NC is not recognized by the PC (and was before all this).
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Any help with the putty ssh screen issue? Any help will be appreciated.
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I then searched and found this on nookdev.com (nookdevs.com/NookColor_Fix_Boot_Loops ). Following the instructions there, I installed putty.exe in the same folder as adb.exe. Putty would start and the session window would open, but I could not type or paste anything into the ssh screen. I assumed I had a bad download so I redid that and the install – no luck. I then searched and found another site from which I could download putty.exe, same results.
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Out of desperation I downloaded putty.exe again and it worked this time. Using the script on the nookdev.com website, the NC booted. I then did the data wipe and the 8X reset. I'm now back to stock (mostly) and I'll see if it updates tonight. If not, I'll force it tomorrow and don the new auto-nooter.
I'm learning!!
Glad you fixed yours too. This device is nearly impossible to brick unless you deliberately try to. Definitely easy to undo hard work, but hard to brick.
I have the same problem. Minutes after rooting with autonooter, my Nook restarted and I didn't even set up ADB access. I tried reseting several times with no luck Please help!!
Mine is currently stuck in a boot loop as well. I did not update to the newer firmware it auto-updated and jacked everything up. Pretty upset right now.
I know I can reset the device but I need to get the data from it first. I have the entire storage full of data that I need. It will not boot at all and if this gets erased i'll more than likely end up returning the device and purchasing something that I won't have this problem with every update.
Unfortunately, there aren't many devices that will automatically backup all your important data to external media without you having to take some action on your own to set that up.
hey guys i'm noob here yesterday i rooted my nook color and everything was going fine until i turned it off when i tried to turn this again i couldn't so i took the sdcard off and tried again it powered but now i'm stuck in the grey 'N' screen, any idea on how can i fix this?
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hey guys i'm noob here yesterday i rooted my nook color and everything was going fine until i turned it off when i tried to turn this again i couldn't so i took the sdcard off and tried again it powered but now i'm stuck in the grey 'N' screen, any idea on how can i fix this?
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Well, I'm not an expert, but I have been through this kind of thing. I would think you have two possibilities. One would be to put the nooter sdcard back in and hook it to the computer again. If it isn't very corrupted, it may automatically reload from the nooter sdcard.
If that won't work, then I think it's time to do the 3 finger data wipe and then the 8X reboot thing. You can then redo the nooter sdcard thing.
Good luck.
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hey guys i'm noob here yesterday i rooted my nook color and everything was going fine until i turned it off when i tried to turn this again i couldn't so i took the sdcard off and tried again it powered but now i'm stuck in the grey 'N' screen, any idea on how can i fix this?
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EXACT Same thing happened to me and a friend when using autonooter and 1.0.1. I think there is a problem with autonooter or 1.0.1 messing up the booting process. I wonder whats wrong So I was able to do the 8X reboot thing and get back to stock 1.0.0 and from here I'll try to attempt to use autonooter for 1.0.1. But I'm staying with 1.0.0 until Froyo next month.
thanks! the 8x thing worked good, I did the whole auto noot process again and it works at all except by this market issue
ok so weird problem here..
my NC is fine besides this one problem.
ive rooted with autonooter to 1.0.1
if i turn my NC completely off and leave it all night, when i wake up in the morning it gets stuck on the "touch of... " screen. The only way to get past this is to reboot to recovery and select reboot..
any idea why this happens? if i just restart the NC, or just let it go to sleep this doesnt happen, only when its been fully off for a couple hours.
ive tried reverting to stock/rerooted all that to fix it, but nothing seems to work.
i know i can just let it sleep and problem solved, but id like to know why this happens or if anyone experienced anything like this before.. thanks!
Try holding down the "n" button while turning on the unit...
Other wise you might have messed up your boot partition, go to development and search for samelhaff's thread on a flashable zip where you can fix the boot.
it reboots to recovery (power+n) just fine... just doesnt reboot normally (just pressing n) .. gets stuck on touch of.. screen
after getting into CWR and selecting reboot it then boots up correctly..
dont know why it just wont reboot normally to begin with.
Same problem here.
After some testing with HC and CM7 roms i recovered to the 1.0.1 Eclair rooted with autonooter version. I turn it off and on some times and everything worked allright. Left it all night off and when i turn it on in the morning i was stuck at the "Touch the future...".
I flashed the stock boot repartition and it started normaly.
Yesterday i flashed the custom Froyo 0.6.8 and everything was allright untill the morning when i stuck again athe " touch..." screen.
I booted with CW and rebooted normally.
Same thing has happened to me twice. I've only been able to get it to boot by booting from my bootable cwr and selecting restart.
Also been noticing some oddities with it charging fully, sometimes while plugged in the status is simply "not charging", not "charging" or "dischargin" and the N symbol on the end of the cable is yellow, not green.
Now it's even worst. Every time i try to boot i get stuck in the "Touch..." screen and i can only boot through CW recovery.
Any ideas?
Glad I finally found some people with the same problem
So initially I took my stock nook (1.0.1) and ran autonooter. Worked great but I noticed it would randomly reboot. Also , same as the other posters, if I powered it all the way down it liked to automatically power up and get stuck on the boot screen. Only way to reset was boot into CWR and select the reboot option from there. I loaded CM7 and same problems so i thought it may be some kind of hardware issue.
Reverted to stock, no problems.
Back to autonooter and this time ran dual boot from EMMC with stock as main partition and HC v4 on second partition. So i don't have CWR anymore but have my SD card handy in case I need it.
Well after a couple days of normal usage the random reboots are gone. Left the unit on during the whole time. Last night I turned it off to apply my Phamtomskin and this morning woke up to find it stuck on the boot screen. Must have been doing that for a while because when i stuck in the SD card for CWR it gave me the low battery warning. After 15 minutes it rebooted to CWR and i was able to reboot normal from there.
Hopefully since a couple of us got the problem we can find some sort of fix. I would like to know if it is some kind of hardware issue or as poster #2 suggested its a simple matter of flashing the boot file. Would I loose my dual boot partition if I flash this zip? Any help appreciated and thanks what a great XDA community.
I think that it has to do with CW and boot. Can i remove CW recovery without affecting my configuration?
no change.
im at least relieved that others have this same problem and it isnt a problem with only my NC.
last night i went back to stock, rerooted 1.0.1 and all that jazz and opted NOT to install CWR and power it down over night (thinking maybe clockwork was the problem) ...
well that didnt work b/c this morning it is stuck on the "touch of" screen and worse yet, i obviously cant even boot into recovery to just reboot.
looks like another revert/reroot this morning for me...
very frustrating.
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im at least relieved that others have this same problem and it isnt a problem with only my NC.
last night i went back to stock, rerooted 1.0.1 and all that jazz and opted NOT to install CWR and power it down over night (thinking maybe clockwork was the problem) ...
well that didnt work b/c this morning it is stuck on the "touch of" screen and worse yet, i obviously cant even boot into recovery to just reboot.
looks like another revert/reroot this morning for me...
very frustrating.
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Just get the bootable cwr, then you'll always have it handy. The stuck at touch of reading screen has happened to me twice, pulled out my bootable cwr, selected restart and all was well.
I've never heard of anyone having this problem with V 1.0.1. I know that a lot of people are having this same problem with V1.1. Apparently CWR and V1.1 don't coexist well. I had this problem after doing Stock Nook 1.0.1 --> Autonooter 2.12.25 --> Sideload to rooted V1.1. Some people also have the problem when going from stock V1.1 and using Autonooter 3.0. The fix in both cases is to uninstall CWR using the CWR removal tool mentioned here:
androidtablets.net/forum/nook-color-technical/6386-how-installing-using-clockworkmod-rom-manager-nandroid-backup-custom-kernels-20.html#post48469
(sorry, I can't post links yet.) It leaves the device rooted. It worked for me.
I recently returned to stock 1.2 with the default recovery flashed (CWM SD card), and then I upgraded to 1.3, and then rooted with the ManualNooter 4.5.18 and 4.6.16 (or whatever their numbers are, I followed the instructions to the T).
It worked fine and I installed everything i needed from the market/titanium backup/etc but the second time I reboot the device it is stuck in a boot loop. The splash screen slowly writes out the word "Nook Color" and it will complete this once, but the second time it does this, it reaches the L in Color it stops and starts over. It will do this for hours.
I wiped it and started fresh over, reinstalling 1.2, re-updating to 1.3, re-nootering (sounds dirty...) all over again, re-installing all my apps all over again (took forever) and yet it still does this. As soon as I rebooted it, this began again
I'm a longtime lurker with a rooted and much-abused DInc, I've had PhireMod, CM7 (without the sleep of death) and Honeycomb on my Nook all without issues (that I couldn't fix). But this has me completely flummox'd. What makes this harder to deal with is that my Nook will not recognize my home Wi-Fi so I have to do all my work on it during my lunchbreak (another issue entirely; unrelated, home wifi is a software solution)
Any Ideas? I haven't yet had the chance to flash the better kernel, because when I reboot it's stuck in this loop. I tried re-nootering and that did not help.
Same with me. Happened 3 times to me last night. I'm still figuring out what i can do to make stock 1.3 + OC + rooted to work.
I'm trying to determine what I did in those 3 times in common. Only thing i can think of i did in all those 3 times was OC +format SD card and installed titanium backup from market.
I'm sure its not a new issue because I remember this happening to me a month ago then I gave up and just went back to miui.
I had the same problem. Look for post about adobe flash causing boot loops. I solved the issue by:
1: after installing 4.6.16, I signed into the marked, downloaded titanium backup
2: used TB to delete the copy of abode flash and adobe air.
3: restarted the nook and had no boot looping.
4: I searched and found a copy of the current adobe flash and sideloaded it using CWM.
It's been 3 day and no boot looping.
Regards
I also had the boot loop issue. It was caused because I updated my flash. Check out this thread....it fixed my issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1208896&highlight=boot+loop
Thanks, Johnny. You've saved me a lot of trouble.
No problem! Happy to help! Thankfully GMPOWER threw together that zip file for everyone!!
Be careful when you install any 3rd party keyboards to /system, it also resulted in boot loops for me with a few of them
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Be careful when you install any 3rd party keyboards to /system, it also resulted in boot loops for me with a few of them
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Was thumb kb one of them?
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Was thumb kb one of them?
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I have had no issues with Thumb keyboard (either after initial install or updates).
I installed the latest CM 10.2 (cm-10.2-20130827-NIGHTLY-ovation.zip) as well as the newest GApps. Everything seems to work fine until I install a few apps. Unfortunately I can't say if any of the apps could be causing the behavior which is as follows:
I've had this issue a couple of times already and, after becoming frustrated mostly due to the Nook only deciding to boot from the SD every once in about 30 retries, usually resulting in a revert to stock by default, I gave up and reverted to stock. Of course the taste of CM that I got was too sweet to give up completely. So, today I tried again and had the same problem. Seemingly it will work fine until you reboot after installing quite a few apps. I made sure to restart the tablet several times after installing it and everything went as planned. Whenever the play store had finished installing my swathe of apps, I decided to restart and this is when I was met, yet again, with the rotating CM boot animation.
It's quite annoying really, considering how fast it seems when I'm using it. I haven't got CM installed on the tablet's own recovery partition (if it has one -- I've not read up on these things) but have been running it from the SD. I don't know if that makes a difference. I've formatted all the pertinent partitions before starting the ROM for the first time. I delete the data/cache twice all-in-all, once before and once after. Dalvik too.
Basically I'm flummoxed.
Does it boot up after you clear cache?
I no longer saw this issue after unchecking wallpaper quick render under homescreen settings.
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Does it boot up after you clear cache?
I no longer saw this issue after unchecking wallpaper quick render under homescreen settings.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using Tapatalk 4
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I can't clear cache because I keep the recovery on the SD and it decides it doesn't want to boot from it nine times out of ten, even after following the newer instructions for formatting the SD. After a few failed reboots it just reverts to stock. If I flash CMW recovery to the Nook's recovery partition, will I still be able to revert to stock that way? As annoying as it is, it's nice to have that ability.
I'll try a new install today and avoid checking the wallpaper hack because that appears to cause a problem. I had flashed it yesterday and used it for quite a while, installed all my apps and restarted it many times without issue. After checking that I think I restarted and met the endless logo. Will report back later today.
I can confirm that when I leave the quick wallpaper render option unchecked, it does not lead to a catastrophic failure. Strange that I need to reformat the SD each time or it doesn't reliably boot from it. Either way, I've been using this install for a few days now without any unexpected issues.
Thanks for the advice.
Hey guys,
I have been on 5.1.1 and rooted for about 2 weeks now (pretty much since it came out) with no problems at all. A couple days ago, my Netflix app stopped working; it freezes when trying to load videos. After reinstalling, clearing data, etc. didn't fix it, I decided to boot to recovery to make a backup and reflash. I used Nandroid Manager to boot to recovery, and now my phone is in a boot loop. It has the usual message "recovery is not seandroid enforcing" at the top, but if I try to boot into download mode, the screen goes black momentarily, and the same loading screen comes up again (and is still frozen).
My only thought is to wait for the battery to drain and hope a hard reset fixes it, but my battery was at 95% at the time...and I still don't know if I'll be able to get into download mode.
Any ideas?
Clear caches from recovery and reboot.
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Were you able to fix this? I just upgraded to 5.1.1 rooted and Netflix won't work anymore. Stuck on the loading screen as well. I tried wiping cache in recovery and rebooted, reinstalling, clearing cache in app manager, nothing works.
Same issue
This sucks, I have the same issue and I didn't do anything different. I was running stock 5.1.1 with root and it worked, flashed xtresolite rom and it still worked, then today all of a sudden it's just stuck on the loading screen. I've tried unrooting and reverting to stock....nothing. I even logged on to my netflix via laptop and deactivated all my devices since, I assumed I maxed out on the registered devices....still nothing. Hope someone can figure this out, I know in the past Netflix did not work with some custom Roms... But I don't think this is the case considering it doesn't even work when it's stock and unrooted.
***Netflix only works on the TV when it is casted via Chromecast from my Galaxy S6
I have a tab s2, but the same story...running stock 5.1.1 with root since xmas morning...the last 2 days I get stuck when I try to start a video. Can't seem to find an answer.
is there a fix
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Hey guys,
I have been on 5.1.1 and rooted for about 2 weeks now (pretty much since it came out) with no problems at all. A couple days ago, my Netflix app stopped working; it freezes when trying to load videos. After reinstalling, clearing data, etc. didn't fix it, I decided to boot to recovery to make a backup and reflash. I used Nandroid Manager to boot to recovery, and now my phone is in a boot loop. It has the usual message "recovery is not seandroid enforcing" at the top, but if I try to boot into download mode, the screen goes black momentarily, and the same loading screen comes up again (and is still frozen).
My only thought is to wait for the battery to drain and hope a hard reset fixes it, but my battery was at 95% at the time...and I still don't know if I'll be able to get into download mode.
Any ideas?
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Hello....Were you ever able to find a fix for this? I have had no problems with Netflix until today. I haven't done anything new or changed anything on my phone, but all of a sudden today it won't load any shows. Netflix opens fine and I can browse, but when I try to play anything it just stays on the loading screen. I'm not having any trouble with any other apps (Hulu, YouTube, games, etc.)
I'm stuck in the same boat, stock rooted (unikernel) LP, and now stock rooted MM..