[Q] Can't restore a factory image. - Nook Color General

I had a Nook setup with Dual Boot (not using an SD Image) and now I am trying to restore the device back to factory settings.
I've been trying to do a full factory restore (removing my root) to my Nook Color.
I've used this ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959461 to remove the dual boot and reparition.
I've formated EVERY partition (except SDCard, which seemed like a bad idea if I booted from it).
I've created a bootable Clockwork Recovery MicroSD Image (3.0.2.8). I can boot from this fine.
I've tried 3 different factory ROMS (1.0.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc) and I can get them all to install and boot up.
However I can't get past the "B&N registration screen". I always get an error registering the device.
When I select "Shutdown" the device, from this screen, I believe I can STILL see the "soft keys" on the bottom of the screen, which makes me feel like the Android system is still "hacked".
Have I restored this correctly? Is there some reason I can't register the device with B&N?

Are you sure /data is getting formatted? Watch it carefully at that step. If you're using an older Clockworkmod, it will fail with newer Nooks due to filesystem changes. IIRC cwm3.2.01 is the latest. I had the same symptom, realized /data was not formatting and tried with a newer version and had no problems restoring to 1.3.

Use version 3.2.0.1 of CWR found here: http://www.multiupload.com/N5C1846GH3
Wipe everything and then install this stock 1.3 .zip: http://www.multiupload.com/3Y5MWE773D

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[Q] is there a CWR-flashable stock+auto-nooker image out there?

I have been playing with HC, CM7 etc on my Nook color and decided to go back to running auto-nooker on top of stock, but I want to keep the SD CWR image I made, which has a lot of free space for me to play with future ROM. Has someone packed an CWR zip for auto-nooker?
Thanks.
mathfeel said:
I have been playing with HC, CM7 etc on my Nook color and decided to go back to running auto-nooker on top of stock, but I want to keep the SD CWR image I made, which has a lot of free space for me to play with future ROM. Has someone packed an CWR zip for auto-nooker?
Thanks.
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BOOM Wining.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=932145
therealguppy said:
BOOM Wining.
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LOL. Thanks.
My current ROM is phiremod nook V4.1. After flashing this and reboot. The Nook U picture flashes, then it's flashing "A N D R O I D _" prompt at the lower left and nothing...
There are three of us currently stuck on that damned android_ screen right now. As I posted in the other one if you get out of this please post your steps!
I reflashed phiremod nook V4.1. That boots pass ANDROID_.
Hmm maybe this is due to CM7 using EXT4 and stock using EXT3,
after flashing the Stock restore also try flash the Restore Boot Partition..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
At the bottom of the first post on this one you can find the Restore Boot. which restores Stock B&N boot.
I already did that. Right now as I turn it on, it displays the "Touch the Future of Reading" line instead of the "Loading..." line from CWR. Or do you think this is not sufficient?
There is message when installing repartition-boot-with-stock.zip:
"This will install stock boot 1.0.1 Eclaire --- This won't boot with Froyo!"
Can this the issue too?
EDIT: During the 5 minutes delay b/t post, I installed repartition-boot-with-stock.zip and Nook Color-v1.1.0-r2.zip, now it boots and stucked at the Nook icon with the "Contain Reader Mobile by Adobe" line.
Okay, so I restore stock image, albeit 1.0.1 using images form this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919353
Steps:
1. download/extract boot.img and system.img to bootable sdcard (with CWRv3.0.0.6)
2. boot using sdcard, mount /sdcards
3. use adb to dd the image as described in article.
4. repeat failed boot to force recovery.
I thought this would restore /system and /boot ext3 again, but it doesn't...still getting stuck at "ANDROID_" prompt after reflashing the Nook Color v1.1 above. I am going back to CM7...sigh...
EDIT: Actually, it DID work! My problem was when I reflashed Nook Color v1.1-r2.zip, I wiped system and data, which I shouldn't have.
therealguppy said:
Hmm maybe this is due to CM7 using EXT4 and stock using EXT3,
after flashing the Stock restore also try flash the Restore Boot Partition..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
At the bottom of the first post on this one you can find the Restore Boot. which restores Stock B&N boot.
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FYI I've been in the same boat as you a couple of times now with my Nook not wanting to boot. And it seems it gets to different points each time before locking up and not booting. I'm starting to think the same thing as your comments here. This whole ext4 stuff is what seems to be causing issues for a lot of folks specially when wanting to go back to a different ROM or stock. To further compound it is the fact the newest CWR is 3.0.1.0 and all bootable sdcard files are still 3.0.0.6 or 3.0.0.5. With that said I can tell you making a backup using the 3.0.1.0 CWR that is on the internal mem and then getting stuck booting is no good. Reason being from wha tI've found so far is if you take your 3.0.1.0 backup and put it on a bootable sdcard that has 3.0.0.6 so you can restore, it does not work right from what I've found. The only way I've found to fix it easily so far is to first flash the " Remove CWR * .zip from the link posted here. After that then flash the repartition-boot-with-stock.zip file. Once I've flash those 2 files I'm able to flash a new ROM and have it boot like it should.
Another way I've got around it was to power the device on into recovery with no sdcard in the device. Once it booted into recovery ( ie CWR 3.0.1.0 ) I put the sdcard in the device that had my 3.0.1.0 CWR backup. I restored that backup using the actual 3.0.1.0 recovery from internal mem. Once finished tried to boot and it got stuck. When it did I then powered it down and fire it back up but this time booting to the sdcard and then I flashed the repartition-boot-with-stock.zip and it would finally boot up like it should.
Bottom line IMO at least is it seems to be hit or miss on what is the best way to get it back up and running after the boot partition gets hosed. And that can make it a bit frustrating.
Sorry I don't have time to read all of this. Just keep in mind that > 3.0.0.6 formats to ext4 (ie CM). For stock and froyo, use 3.0.0.5 to format to ext2 and 3..
System, data and cache need formatting before flashing a new rom.
Repartitioning boot is only useful if your NC doesn't boot.
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thought 3.0.1.0 was supposed to work for everything.

Clockwork backup "can't mount /system!"

Like the title says, when I try to create a backup clockwork does the following:
Backing up boot...
Backing up system...
Can't mount /system!
I'm about to try dual boon on internal and want to make sure I can restore stock if I need to.
I'm rooted using autonooter 3.
I've got the same problem, which I haven't solved yet. But I did come across this (which I haven't tried): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11868531
I had the same problem. Backup works with clockwork 3.0.0.5, but not with 3.0.1.0. Run rommanager and choose book color (old) when choosing the recovery to flash.
Try going into rom manager and reflashing the clockwork recovery, but this time select the opposite of whatever you selected before. For me, I have Rom Manager 3.0.1.3 on an autonootered 1.1, but the first time, I select "Nook Color". I went back and reflashed and this time selected "Nook Color (old)" and that did the trick.
Found one answer here: http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/nook-color-technical/10099-backup-error-think-im-worrying-nothing.html. Sounds like the solution is just try opposite of what you did the first time. I noticed the flash was to clockwork 3.0.1.0 until I did "old", and then it was 3.0.0.5.
Unfortunately, after doing that, it will only boot into clockworkmod recovery now...sigh
KEY POINT!! REBOOT YOUR SYSTEM AFTER THE CMW FLASH!!!
If you don't you end up in a boot loop, like me!!
If you end up in the boot loop, go get the CWR-removal.zip file (I got mine from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690 and use it to remove the recovery flash.
I don't know if you can do it from that boot by dropping the file on the sd card and installing it (I'm assuming so), but I had a spare bootable CMR I used, just to be safe.
Then go back in, reflash the recovery in rom manager AND REBOOT!!!
If you were on B&N 1.1.0 and then did autonooter 3.0 to root your NC, you absolutely MUST do a complete power off/on between the steps -Flash Recovery and -Boot into Recovery.
If you do not, you will get stuck in a boot loop. In which as stated above you will need to use a bootable SD, flash the 'remove cwr', and then install again.
And for the 'can't mount /system' issue while trying to do a backup - it's likely because you are on a non-ext4 rom (ie CM7) and you picked the 'Nook Color' device when you flashed recovery per the install instructions. Funny thing is, it won't work. Go back into ROM Manager and flash recovery again but select 'Nook Color (old)' and then power off, power back on, reboot into recovery and you will be able to complete a nand backup.
Be sure to document your situation and post it to the Official CWR 3010 thread in the Dev sub-forum and maybe we can get an answer or a fix from the devs.

CWR does nothing

My nook color recently got stuck on the boot screen for CM7 where the blue android text just chills out in the left corner. This happened right after my nook ran out of battery power.
I have gotten it to boot all the way into CM7 occasionally. However, it is not reliable at all, so I've tried to restore it to stock and reflash the whole thing.
I tried to do this by booting into recovery and then flashing the restore to 1.01 stock zip file, but when the nook rebooted it was still stuck on the android text. I have tried flashing everything related to restoring nooks, but to no avail.
I thought that maybe my CWR was broken, so I tried making a CWR sd card but even when I flashed the restore zip, my nook's boot still gets stuck on the android text.
What do you think I should try to do now?
You are able to boot into cwr though? If so have you tried downloading the stock image file again? Could be the file is corrupt.
I just downloaded it again and it still doesn't work.
I don't think that the problem is the zip files. I think that CWR is the problem since I've tried formatting /system and /data and tried repartitioning boot, but nothing happens...
I just tried to restore my nook to stock through ADB, but it still tried to boot into CM7. I guess that rules out CWR as the problem...
I also made an ext4 compatible CWR SD and tried the restore 1.01 zip again. This time I got past the android text and instead got to the grey android text from the rooted nook boot. However, it just sat there, stuck in a loop.
Odd, that even after wiping system and data that you'd have anything to boot into. You aren't leaving a bootable sd card in place are you?
I make sure to take out the SD card before rebooting.
Is it possible to check to see if CWR/ADB is actually writing to the correct partitions?
EDIT: I do not think that my nook is keeping any changes that I make to it...
I managed to boot into CM7 and I uninstalled a few apps and changed the max clock to 800mhz. Then I rebooted and eventually got back into CM7 and my apps magically came back and my max clock was reset to 1.1ghz.
okay that is very odd. Unfortunately I've never run into this or even read about it before. Hopefully someone here will be able to give you a tip that will help you fix this.
I've been having same issue for a week now. I tried everything I was able to find here but nothing is wokring. It seems like my nook became a read-only device. No matter what I do it goes back to previous stage.
I was running CM7 RC4 and system hung so I rebooted and that was it. It displays "Android_" on the bottm for about 10-15 sec and reboot.
I tried
CWR 3.0.0.5
- Repratition to stock nook.
- Getting error when I try to format system and data - I thought it was because CM7 was setting system to ext4.
- ADB and DD boot.img, System.img and copy Factory to mmcblk0p3
- Try to restore from back up I made
- Nothing works but goes back to boot loop
CWR 3.0.0.6 - One I got from CM7 install to emmc thread
- System format works
- Install latest nightly
- Restore from back up
- ADB can't find device - This is odd and couldn't find a way to fix it yet.
- Tried to install Stock zip but going back to CM7 boot loop
CWR 3.0.1.0
- Can't format data/system
- ADB to delete partitions and create them again but it doesn't help
- Tried all zip files to bring it back to stock - no go
- ADB to copy Factory.zip to emmc partition - umount and mount again then file I copied is gone.
- Deleted partitions and reboot but some how I got back to CM7 loop
I see people start to talking about CM7 boot loop issue. I saw this thread and man this is same issue I'm having! Let me know if you some how resolved this issue. I will do the same if I can find one.
Naw, I haven't resolved it yet...
I will post the solution if I do though!
Perhaps it's just a coincidence, but I am also stuck running RC4. Maybe there's some weird glitch in RC4 that makes the file system read only or something...?
I went from RC4 to stable with no problem. I did notice that CWR was not mounting the system and data partitions so I did have to do that when updating. Not sure why they aren't mounting automatically.
From the Dummies guide link....Here...
First visit this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
Download either the Rootpack, or the Clockwork Recovery image (1gb).
Next visit this link and download the 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 restore to stock files:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
From this link you should also download the very last zip on the page. It is titled-flashable boot repartition zip. or something of the like. If you followed all these steps and still nothing, I would recommend flashing this as it can fix a completely screwed boot partition.
I had to use that last file after my hard crash. Seems that te /boot gets corrupted and tis seemed to fix it for me. After this you will probably need to do a full wipe and reinstall.
My order was...
rebuild /boot
reflash to stock
reflash to CM7
not sure why this worked...just did.
edit: just noticed my H key isn't always working...makes me type like a alf drunk brit..
deadbot1 said:
From the Dummies guide link....Here...
First visit this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
Download either the Rootpack, or the Clockwork Recovery image (1gb).
Next visit this link and download the 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 restore to stock files:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
From this link you should also download the very last zip on the page. It is titled-flashable boot repartition zip. or something of the like. If you followed all these steps and still nothing, I would recommend flashing this as it can fix a completely screwed boot partition.
I had to use that last file after my hard crash. Seems that te /boot gets corrupted and tis seemed to fix it for me. After this you will probably need to do a full wipe and reinstall.
My order was...
rebuild /boot
reflash to stock
reflash to CM7
not sure why this worked...just did.
edit: just noticed my H key isn't always working...makes me type like a alf drunk brit..
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I tried this too but mine didn't come back.
Hmm. dunno. Maybe you can get samuelhalff to chime in...he was helping another guy out with something similar. searc in the threads for his name and your problem...wasn't to long ago.
edit---http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1022941 this was the thread I was talking about...doesn't appear they came up with a solution.
I tried all the things you suggested guys, but nothing worked...
Although I think I made some kind of progress... I tried to dd stock boot.img and system.img files onto my nook and now CM7 just bootloops instead of hangs!
Hopefully we can get this sorted out soon, or else I may try what one member suggested about microwaving it so that you can get a new one...

[USER][PARTITIONS] Nook Color EMMC Partition Repair

Several users have complained that they get blank screens and cannot flash new roms to their Nook Color. And sometimes they end up in a recovery bootloop where it will do nothing but boot to recovery no matter what they choose in the boot menu. Sometimes this is due to corrupted partitions on internal memory.
DizzyDen has prepared some .img files that can be burned to emmc to repair some of these issues, and they work well. But some of the files are very large and it takes a little knowledge of adb commands on the part of the users. And some users cannot get adb working on their machines. So I started investigating other solutions, and I have made some tools that work that I hope are user friendly.
Dean Gibson has a thread that describes how to repartition emmc to set the partition sizes for data and media to the user's preference. He repartitions partitions p6 (data), p7 (cache) and p8 (media). In studying his zip, I figured out how to make his tool repair partitions p4 (extended), p5 (system), p6 (data), p7 (cache), and p8 (media). And I was able to add additional commands to also repair partition p1 (boot). I asked Dean's permission to post his tools as modified by me and he agreed. Thanks Dean!
So that takes care of partitions 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
Partitions 2 and 3 are very special and one must be very careful with them. Partition 2 is 'rom', which holds information that is specific to the user's device (serial number, etc.), and it is used by the system to set flags for deciding whether to boot to recovery or not and set the boot count that is used to decide whether to do a reset to factory conditions (8 failed boots). Partition 3 is 'factory' and holds the factory.zip file used by the 8 failed boot reset (if you want to learn more about the 8 failed boot reset, go to my tips thread linked in my signature). It also holds a backup of the device information in partition 2. So it is possible to repair partition 2 if partition 3 is still intact.
A few users have somehow managed to flash Nook Tablet ROMs to their Nook Colors and really messed up partition 4. (Edit: and now I know how it happened, some idiot recommended that they remove the first line of the updater script. NEVER do that! That line is a safety check to make sure you are flashing to the right device. You can also defeat the safety check by using an old CWM that has the toggle, 'disable asserts'. Never do that either.) And since partition 4 is the extended partition that holds partitions 5, 6, 7, and 8, they get messed up too. To repair those partitions along with partition 1, use CWM recovery to flash the two zips attached below. Be warned that everything in emmc media (p8) will be wiped out, so you may want to back that up first if you still can. The first zip to flash is 'NookColor-emmc-repair-partitions-1-4-5-6-7-8.zip'. It will recreate those partitions on emmc. As soon as you have sucessfully flashed that zip, you must reboot the Nook Color back to CWM so that the updated partition table is read by CWM. Then you need to flash 'NookColor-emmc-format-partitions-5-6-7-8.zip' (partitions 1 and 4 do not need formatting). It will format the newly created partitions to the correct structure. Now you can use CWM to restore an earlier nandroid backup or flash your favorite ROM (including stock, get version 1.4.3 that I have modified to be flashable with CWM here, or DizzyDen has posted some excellent 1.4.1 stock ROMs here). If you are going to flash a stock ROM, you must be sure to use the format zip or the stock ROM will not boot properly.
If you are in a recovery bootloop, the first thing I recommend trying is to use my CWM version 5.5.0.4 bootable SD that is discussed in my tips thread linked in my signature and has been modified to help get out of some kinds of recovery flag bootloops. If you are in a recovery bootloop that just hangs, it may get you out of it after exiting my CWM with the 'reboot' command in the menu. But if you are still in the loop after doing that, it may be because your device info is missing or corrupted in partition 2. It will not boot to a ROM without this info. (Specifically, it needs a file in /rom/devconf named DeviceID. It is a text file with your 16 digit serial number in it followed by a line feed, 17 bytes.) Try flashing with CWM my 'NookColor-emmc-repair-partition-2.zip' attached to this post to recreate that info. But I recommend this as a last resort, since messing with that partition is risky. That zip will recreate the partition, reset the flags and copy your device specific information from partition 3. But your partition 3 must be intact for this to work. If it is not, the zip will abort and do nothing.
Additionally, for those that do not want to use CWM, I have made a bootable SD that has an older version of TWRP here. Newer versions of TWRP will return an error message when trying to flash these zips. It also has been modified to get you out of some kinds of bootloops.
Two points of information. First, I have included a temporary copy of CWM 5.5.0.4 on the boot partition of my repair so that if tries to reboot to emmc before you put a ROM on it, it goes to CWM. It will be removed as soon as you restore a backup or flash a ROM. Second, the new partition scheme created with my zip is for the original Nook Color's 1GB data and 5GB media. If you want one of the other schemes (5GB data/1GB media or 2GB data/4GB media) go to Dean Gibson's thread and flash his zips after you have repaired your system with mine. See his thread here.
I'm adding a little extra information about emmc partition structure for those interested. With any MBR disk there can be a maximum of four primary partitions. So to have more than four partitions the last primary partition is created as an extended partition so multiple logical partitions can be made inside it. The emmc structure is: p1 (boot, fat, primary), p2 (rom, fat, primary), p3 (factory, ext3, primary), p4 (extended, going from end of p3 to end of the disk), p5 (system, ext2, logical, inside the extended), p6 (data, ext3, logical, inside the extended), p7 (cache, ext3, logical, inside the extended) and p8 (media, fat, logical, inside the extended).
You save my nook color
Thank you so much. My serial number and other information were recovered successfully. Without those information I could not boot into any rom. If you cannot boot into ROM after following the first 2 steps, try recover partition 2. It works for me.
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Thanks
My nook has been stuck in a "will not boot" state for about a week. I could run CWM and cyanoboot, but when ever I tried to boot CM I would get stuck at the "loading..." screen. I tried loading both CM7 & CM9 but neither one would boot.
I ran both repair scripts, reloaded CM7.1 and success!
Thanks Leapinlar! :good:
THANK YOU!!!!!!
Right from my 1st install I couldn't get the bar at the bottom of the screen, which made using the Kindle app more than a little difficult. This finally cleared everything off so I could start with a clean slate, and BINGO! I know have the bottom bar on all the screens. I assume when I go in to the Kindle app it will be ok now also (I just have to format a 16gb microSD and put in the Nook Color 1st).
I can't thank you enough!!!!
Ugh! Tried this method too, and I still cannot get the nook to boot into CWR or CWM. I tried the 8 boots thing too, but I don't know if I ever did it right because I have cyanogen mod installed on emmc. Not sure how to repair the partition if I cannot even boot into anything that allows me to flash the zip to the chip. I thought it may be the sd, but the sd cards work on my other nook. I have now basically dissembled my nook color trying to find any other solution I wish I knew what happened in the first place.
czarofthefrozentundra said:
Ugh! Tried this method too, and I still cannot get the nook to boot into CWR or CWM. I tried the 8 boots thing too, but I don't know if I ever did it right because I have cyanogen mod installed on emmc. Not sure how to repair the partition if I cannot even boot into anything that allows me to flash the zip to the chip. I thought it may be the sd, but the sd cards work on my other nook. I have now basically dissembled my nook color trying to find any other solution I wish I knew what happened in the first place.
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Did you try my version of the CWM bootable SD card? It is on my tips thread and has been modified to boot in certain types of recovery bootloops. Unless you get CWM running you cannot flash things to internal memory. And depending on where in the boot process it hangs, you may not be able to get adb working to put things there either. And the 8 failed boots will not work unless you have stock recovery still on emmc.
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leapinlar said:
Did you try my version of the CWM bootable SD card? It is on my tips thread and has been modified to boot in certain types of recovery bootloops. Unless you get CWM running you cannot flash things to internal memory. And depending on where in the boot process it hangs, you may not be able to get adb working to put things there either. And the 8 failed boots will not work unless you have stock recovery still on emmc.
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Yup. Tried the card. I believe I replaced the emmc with cyanogenmod back in the day. Starts, goes to loading, turns black, then done. Cannot do anything after that. Bummer, sounds like it is actually toast.
czarofthefrozentundra said:
Yup. Tried the card. I believe I replaced the emmc with cyanogenmod back in the day. Starts, goes to loading, turns black, then done. Cannot do anything after that. Bummer, sounds like it is actually toast.
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If you can get adb working while it is sitting there black, you can push the stock recovery files to partition one. Then you may be able to do the 8 failed boots. You can extract the stock recovery files from my zip in my tips thread.
leapinlar said:
If you can get adb working while it is sitting there black, you can push the stock recovery files to partition one. Then you may be able to do the 8 failed boots. You can extract the stock recovery files from my zip in my tips thread.
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Worth a shot. Have nothing more to lose other than time. Maybe adb will work with you card in it. It didn't work with everything else I tried.
OMG OMG thank you soooo much for this thread , you saved my reading addict self from going insane ......
You've done a great job on collecting all of these useful things, especially for those who are stuck with their Nook Color boot looping. (I was once that guy) Dean helped me out with his data zips as well way back! Thanks for all this! :good: :victory:
Much thanks, leapinlar. Restored a nandroid with TWRP that was corrupted and lost my boot partition. I used your first 2 repair zips and I'm back in business. Your many contributions are greatly appreciated.
Mike T
OMG! Thank you so much for putting this up! Back at the beginning of the year I was having problems with my NC not going into USB Mode and only showing a black arrow when trying to load books and following this finally fixed it. Great write-up and instructions, thanks for the hard work.
I've been trying to restore my NOOK for about 2 weeks and this post has gotten me the farthest but i'm stuck at the point where my nook will start up, the "Read Forever" splash screen will come up and then it attempts to recover the system since i see an greenish Android screen come up for a second and then i get an error screen saying "Install Failed" with an image of a nook with an exclamation point in it's screen. I'm assuming i've really messed the nook up but here is where I am.
I've reformatted the partitions using your 1-4,5,6,7,8 zip
Rebooted to recovery
Formatted partiions 5,6,7,8 with your zip
Flashed your 1.4.3 stock rom
At this point I can't get any further since it appears something else is wrong and i didn't want to attempt the reformatting of partition 2 without asking if there is anything else i should try. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
jmiklus01 said:
I've been trying to restore my NOOK for about 2 weeks and this post has gotten me the farthest but i'm stuck at the point where my nook will start up, the "Read Forever" splash screen will come up and then it attempts to recover the system since i see an greenish Android screen come up for a second and then i get an error screen saying "Install Failed" with an image of a nook with an exclamation point in it's screen. I'm assuming i've really messed the nook up but here is where I am.
I've reformatted the partitions using your 1-4,5,6,7,8 zip
Rebooted to recovery
Formatted partiions 5,6,7,8 with your zip
Flashed your 1.4.3 stock rom
At this point I can't get any further since it appears something else is wrong and i didn't want to attempt the reformatting of partition 2 without asking if there is anything else i should try. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Do the partition 2 repair. That is what is messed up and causing the reboot.
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leapinlar said:
Do the partition 2 repair. That is what is messed up and causing the reboot.
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I've tried the partition2 zip and received an error trying to mount the factory partition. Status 7 was the error code. Is there a way to fix this?
jmiklus01 said:
I've tried the partition2 zip and received an error trying to mount the factory partition. Status 7 was the error code. Is there a way to fix this?
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Oh, that is really bad news. That means your partition 3 is corrupted and there is no way to retrieve your device info, like serial number, etc. PM me and maybe I can help you get it partly working, but much of the device info is lost if that partition is truly corrupted.
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leapinlar said:
Oh, that is really bad news. That means your partition 3 is corrupted and there is no way to retrieve your device info, like serial number, etc. PM me and maybe I can help you get it partly working, but much of the device info is lost if that partition is truly corrupted.
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I've been trying to restore my daughter NC back to stock for couple months now and no success.
I did flash the P 1-4-5-6-7-8.zip and got this message after reboot:
"CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
during the reboot, there is a menu option to hit "n" for reboot mode option. when i hit "n" it gives me (attachment).
but it won't let me move up or down to select except for the 1st option
Help would be very appreciated
big64dave said:
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I've been trying to restore my daughter NC back to stock for couple months now and no success.
I did flash the P 1-4-5-6-7-8.zip and got this message after reboot:
"CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
during the reboot, there is a menu option to hit "n" for reboot mode option. when i hit "n" it gives me (attachment).
but it won't let me move up or down to select except for the 1st option
Help would be very appreciated
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During reboot it should automatically go to CWM because everything else is wiped. The boot menu only lets you make the first choice because that is all that is there, everything else is wiped. You need to continue to use the CWM to flash the format zip next. Then you can flash a ROM. If the CWM that pops up is not working, use the bootable CWM SD.
leapinlar said:
During reboot it should automatically go to CWM because everything else is wiped. The boot menu only lets you make the first choice because that is all that is there, everything else is wiped. You need to continue to use the CWM to flash the format zip next. Then you can flash a ROM. If the CWM that pops up is not working, use the bootable CWM SD.
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Thx for replied, the Nook just stock on loading and it won't let me do anything except for power up and down

[Q] NOOK HD+ stuck in bootloop after failed Nandroid backup

I wanted to update my sister's Nook HD+ to CM11. I don't have an SD card big enough to do a nandroid backup, so I tried to back up to the internal SD card. It was working fine, then it said "backup of /data failed". I thought this was because the internal SD card ran out of space. When I tried to reboot, it found that it's stuck in a bootloop. It goes to the nook screen, then the Cyanoboot screen, then starts loading Cyanogenmod like normal. The boot animation plays then freezes, and the device reboots. I've tried clearing the cache and dalvik cache and it gets a little farther, but it's still in a bootloop. Please help! I would like to avoid doing a factory reset if at all possible.
If internal space was maxed out, would a factory reset even work any better?
If only booting is corrupted, you should just be able to simply dirty flash the same rom build or newer to fix without losing anything.
I don't know where nandroid backups are made internally but if they are accessible via usb on a pc, then you could just delete those files. If it is indeed full storage. And then dirty flash the build again if needed.
There's probably some other ways to go as well.

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