I messed my Nook up pretty good this time guys. I mess my Androids up regularly it seems, but up to this point I've been able to surf xda and stuff for the solutions. I am completely out of ideas now any help is appreciated greatly.
The big problem seems to be that I cannot boot CWM from my SD card anymore. I've been on Phiremod CM7.1 stable for months now, but I wanted to try out the TeamWinRecoveryProject over on the first page of the development forum first page. Following their instructions, I saved copies the originals of uRecImg and uRecRam to my pc and replaced the ones on my nook's /boot directory with their files. That is all I did.
I now get stuck at the CM splash screen that says "Loading..." indefinitely. I also figured out I can reach the u-boot menu by holding the n button on boot. This gives me options to but from different files and either emmc or sd card. Choosing any option just locks the Nook up like I get at the loading screen in a normal boot.
Please please please xda bestow your amazing gift of knowledge upon me to get my nook back to good old CM7.1 and CWM pictures included.
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What's currently on your eMMC? Stock still?
Remove the uSD, can it still be booted?
My emmc was Phiremod CM7.1. With or without the SD card, all I can boot to are the two screens in the pictures.
Edit: The boot menu is supposed to allow me to boot normally, to recovery, or an alternative boot on either my emmc or my sd, but I've tried all six options and nothing happens.
I have tried multiple CWM images for my SD card and multiple SD cards that function on other devices just fine.
You didn't accidentally replace your normal kernel with the twrp kernel did you? The twrp kernel wouldn't even let me boot into recovery. I used the cm7 kernel for the recovery kernel and it worked for me.
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You're probably not bricked. The same thing happened to me (several times ). I think the uRecImg from twrp's 2.0 nook color page is bad. Make a new TWRP 2.0 bootable SD card from here and burn it to a SD card.
Then download the 1.01 Restore from here. Copy that to the bootable sd card and put it in your nook.
Power up and you should be in TWRP 2.0 (touchscreen). Wipe system and do a factory reset. After that, flash the nook-complete-restore-1.0.1.zip and reboot to system (after removing sd card).
That'll get you to stock. Then you just flash the CM7.x to emmc using the twrp 2.0 bootable sd, download rom manger, and install CWM. If you want to use TWRP 2.0 from emmc, just replace uRecRam only.
All of these steps may not be necessary, but they at least got me booting again (and finally a working emmc install of twrp 2.0).
foltz61 said:
You didn't accidentally replace your normal kernel with the twrp kernel did you? The twrp kernel wouldn't even let me boot into recovery. I used the cm7 kernel for the recovery kernel and it worked for me.
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Are either uRecImg or uRecRam in the /boot directory kernel files? Replacing those two files is all I remember doing.
edit: just saw your post Mwalt. Looking into that now
Hey agemyth, I'm jumping over here to avoid cluttering the TWRP2 thread.
Try mwalt2's suggestion (it was in fact a TWRP2 card I used to fix my kernel), and if that doesn't work:
I don't see why you would fail to boot from a card no matter what's wrong with /boot, unless there is physical damage to the card slot or your bootable images aren't writing properly.
If you did just write the card(s) using a card reader you haven't used to write bootable images before, the reader and the images it's producing may be the problem, not the NC. Try burning the images with an alternate reader (sometimes even a phone, camera or other device over USB will work). If you've burned bootable cards with this reader before, then I'm out of ideas.
I find that flashing to stock (1.41 now) remedies most weird situations. It seems that it restores the device to a known (and sane) state. idk how you'd do that without CWR, though.
mwalt2 said:
You're probably not bricked. The same thing happened to me (several times ). I think the uRecImg from twrp's 2.0 nook color page is bad. Make a new TWRP 2.0 bootable SD card from here and burn it to a SD card.
Then download the 1.01 Restore from here. Copy that to the bootable sd card and put it in your nook.
Power up and you should be in TWRP 2.0 (touchscreen). Wipe system and do a factory reset. After that, flash the nook-complete-restore-1.0.1.zip and reboot to system (after removing sd card).
That'll get you to stock. Then you just flash the CM7.x to emmc using the twrp 2.0 bootable sd, download rom manger, and install CWM. If you want to use TWRP 2.0 from emmc, just replace uRecRam only.
All of these steps may not be necessary, but they at least got me booting again (and finally a working emmc install of twrp 2.0).
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Ugh. Man I really thought using a TWRP bootable SD was going to work. All I get is the CyanogenMod "Loading..." screen. Ugh! Thanks for all the good ideas though guys
agemyth said:
Ugh. Man I really thought using a TWRP bootable SD was going to work. All I get is the CyanogenMod "Loading..." screen. Ugh! Thanks for all the good ideas thought guys
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Unless there's a hardware problem with your nook (seems unlikely), it should boot from the sd card no matter what is on the emmc. How exactly are you burning the image and have you tried a different card/reader?
edit - When you are in the alt boot menu, is your nook recognized by ADB? If so, you could try to push the uRecImg and uRecRam that you backed up to your computer back to /boot. The commands would probably be
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adb shell mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /boot
adb push uRecImg /boot
adb push uRecRam /boot
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Unless there's a hardware problem with your nook (seems unlikely), it should boot from the sd card no matter what is on the emmc. How exactly are you burning the image and have you tried a different card/reader?
edit - When you are in the alt boot menu, is your nook recognized by ADB? If so, you could try to push the uRecImg and uRecRam that you backed up to your computer back to /boot. The commands would probably be
Code:
adb shell mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /boot
adb push uRecImg /boot
adb push uRecRam /boot
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I've tried both win32diskimager and WinImage either running as administrator or normal on Windows 7. I've always used my own EVO 4G to burn images for my Nook. I also used another EVO I had in the house and had the same problem. I do not have any dedicated microSD card readers/writers.
I never quite understood how to get ADB set up I have a basic understanding of Linux and stuff, but ADB has always been over my head. If you could point me in the direction of a "ADB for dummies" with specific Nook instructions or something I would gladly give that a shot.
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I never quite understood how to get ADB set up I have a basic understanding of Linux and stuff, but ADB has always been over my head. If you could point me in the direction of a "ADB for dummies" with specific Nook instructions or something I would gladly give that a shot.
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Thanks to thecubed, there's an easy guide to get adb working here. Once you have that installed, I think it puts the folder with adb.exe in it under c:/. Open a command prompt and change to that directory. Then type 'adb devices' and if the drivers are installed right, it should list some numbers that is your nook. If it can't be detected from the altboot mode, it will just be blank.
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Thanks to thecubed, there's an easy guide to get adb working here. Once you have that installed, I think it puts the folder with adb.exe in it under c:/. Open a command prompt and change to that directory. Then type 'adb devices' and if the drivers are installed right, it should list some numbers that is your nook. If it can't be detected from the altboot mode, it will just be blank.
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By "altboot mode" are you just referring to the u-Boot mode with all the blue text in my second picture on the first post? I got ADB running, but am not finding any devices.
mwalt2 said:
Open a command prompt and change to that directory.
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The easy way to do this in Vista or 7 is hit the Windows/Start key, type "cmd," and hit Enter when cmd.exe comes up. Then in the console, type "cd C:\android-sdk\platform-tools" (that's what it is on mine--thecubed's files might name the folders differently, like "C:\adb" or something. Just pay attention while it's installing and/or take a look with Explorer before you open the console). Once you're in the right directory, any command prefaced with adb will start adb and run through it.
I just learned this stuff myself last week, rooting a Nook First Edition e-ink reader.
Taosaur said:
The easy way to do this in Vista or 7 is hit the Windows/Start key, type "cmd," and hit Enter when cmd.exe comes up. Then in the console, type "cd C:\android-sdk\platform-tools" (that's what it is on mine--thecubed's files might name the folders differently, like "C:\adb" or something. Just pay attention while it's installing and/or take a look with Explorer before you open the console). Once you're in the right directory, any command prefaced with adb will start adb and run through it.
I just learned this stuff myself last week, rooting a Nook First Edition e-ink reader.
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Thanks for your patience with me lol. I may have not stated it correctly in my last post, but I have ADB working through the command prompt, but it is not detecting my Nook when it is sitting in the uboot menu. I installed my evo's drivers and it picks that phone up just fine.
Man, if ADB can't fix this I don't know what can @[email protected]
agemyth said:
Ugh. Man I really thought using a TWRP bootable SD was going to work. All I get is the CyanogenMod "Loading..." screen. Ugh! Thanks for all the good ideas though guys
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Did you boot to the sd through the boot menu or just try inserting the sd and booting. I forget the actually terminology but you can setup the boot loader to ignore the sd by default. Maybe that happened to you.
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foltz61 said:
Did you boot to the sd through the boot menu or just try inserting the sd and booting. I forget the actually terminology but you can setup the boot loader to ignore the sd by default. Maybe that happened to you.
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I tried telling the bootloader to boot from SD and emmc to no avail. I guess the big problem here is that I can't find any way to change any of the boot settings or anything at all.
All the options from the bootloader result in a message like "Booting. One moment please..." or something like that. It just freezes indefinitely.
Tapatalk on EVO 4G
agemyth said:
I tried telling the bootloader to boot from SD and emmc to no avail. I guess the big problem here is that I can't find any way to change any of the boot settings or anything at all.
All the options from the bootloader result in a message like "Booting. One moment please..." or something like that. It just freezes indefinitely.
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There's gotta be a work around. Maybe try a different microsd card.
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foltz61 said:
There's gotta be a work around. Maybe try a different microsd card.
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Yeah, I tried using a family members SD card already.
I'm willing to crack my nook open if there's any chance doing something like that might help.
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agemyth said:
Yeah, I tried using a family members SD card already.
I'm willing to crack my nook open if there's any chance doing something like that might help.
Tapatalk on EVO 4G
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Still grasping at straws here. In all the screens you're stuck in, what happens when you type 'fastboot devices'?
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My Boot will not boot no matter what I do. I encountered this issue after flashing to phiremod v4, which worked beautifully until I decided to free up some storage space on my SD card and format it through the Nook. The next time I tried to boot, I got the dreaded black screen.
I've burned Clockwork Recovery (4gb v .7) onto the SD card and copied the Nook Color V1.1.0_r2 rom (found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=932145). From there, I formatted the data, system, and cache, then installed the rom from the SD card. Everything went through smoothly, until I rebooted the Nook (with the SD card out). Nothing happens! The Nook simply will not reboot without the SD card inserted. Even if it boots (with the SD card) it just sends me back to Clockwork Recovery.
I also tried recovering the Nook through ADB (using the steps found here http://mrm3.net/2011/01/24/113/). I install everything, but I cannot locate the ADB device in the device manager. I've even used the .bat file to auto installs ADB, but it is still not found in the device manager.
I've read that it is nearly impossible to brick a Nook, but I'm not sure what else to try. I'm a Android noob, so please bear with me. TIA!
Fairly certain I read about a bug with formatting the SD card on the NC, that it would format the internal memory instead. I would imagine you will need to flash a new image to the internal memory (should be stock image floating around here somewhere).
No worries, you are most likely NOT bricked. There are hundreds of posts about people thinking they bricked their device.
First thing is first, IF YOU READ THE POST IT SPECIFICALLY STATES DO NOT FORMAT THE SDCARD USING THE NOOK AS IT WIPES THE /BOOT
My suggestion to you is do some research on XDA there are PLENTY of posts about "unbricking" your device.
I have only seen 1 nook be bricked, and it was hardly bricked because it could be booted from an SDCard.
Try following the instructions here to return back to the stock OS:
http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
Reneg4d3 said:
No worries, you are most likely NOT bricked. There are hundreds of posts about people thinking they bricked their device.
First thing is first, IF YOU READ THE POST IT SPECIFICALLY STATES DO NOT FORMAT THE SDCARD USING THE NOOK AS IT WIPES THE /BOOT
My suggestion to you is do some research on XDA there are PLENTY of posts about "unbricking" your device.
I have only seen 1 nook be bricked, and it was hardly bricked because it could be booted from an SDCard.
Try following the instructions here to return back to the stock OS:
http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
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Yeah, I realize that was a big no no. I am unable to perform any of the steps in the link you provided because my nook doesn't even reach the 'Welcome to the future of reading' screen. Also, I can't try method 2 because ADP is not working properly.
I should mention that I also tried samuelhalff's first method to no avail. Any other ideas?
So you CAN boot from an SDCard correct? Only way to boot again is to flash the boot file...
Reneg4d3 said:
So you CAN boot from an SDCard correct? Only way to boot again is to flash the boot file...
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Yes, I can boot (to Clockwork Recovery) if the SD card is inserted and the power cord is inserted and I hold the power button for 10 seconds. If I install a rom from the SD card, doesn't it flash the boot file? If not, how do I flash the boot file?
I know you said you tried Sams method, I would re-read how to flash his boot repartition file found on his froyo on emmc thread
thadeus_d3 said:
Yes, I can boot (to Clockwork Recovery) if the SD card is inserted and the power cord is inserted and I hold the power button for 10 seconds. If I install a rom from the SD card, doesn't it flash the boot file? If not, how do I flash the boot file?
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Here's the link to the boot file. I did the same thing not long ago (formatted SD from within CM7) and I fixed it by flashing this file to repartition the boot.
It's the last link in the OP of this thread (repartition-boot-with-stock.zip):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
If that doesn't work, he has a couple of restore to stock methods in that thread as well.
C Dippa said:
Here's the link to the boot file. I did the same thing not long ago (formatted SD from within CM7) and I fixed it by flashing this file to repartition the boot.
It's the last link in the OP of this thread (repartition-boot-with-stock.zip):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
If that doesn't work, he has a couple of restore to stock methods in that thread as well.
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YES! This did it! I missed this link somehow. Many thanks to all that helped.
Ok, now I'm stuck on the screen that says "Contains Reader Mobile technology by Adobe Systems Incorporated". Did this happen to you C Dippa? I'm going to try a reset and see if that helps.
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Ok, now I'm stuck on the screen that says "Contains Reader Mobile technology by Adobe Systems Incorporated". Did this happen to you C Dippa? I'm going to try a reset and see if that helps.
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Nope...it just booted up, may have taken a little longer.
Any luck with it?
Yeah, I had to do the 8 failed boot attempts to bypass that screen, then re-root. Now, I'm all set! Phiremod is installed again.
Glad to have helped! Happy nooting!
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So I was going to try and change roms. And I couldn't boot into recovery, so I made a recovery bootable sd card. Me in my glorious thinking decided I would just use it to install the internal recovery and my rom.
Once the sdcard booted into recovery I did a system/data/cache wipe. then installed clockworkmod. It succeeded, so I went to the rom I had on my card. It failed. I said I know, I'll power down, take the sdcard put cm on it and try again. wrong.
Now I can't boot into recovery on either an sdcard or without and turning on the nook regularly flashes loading and goes to the page that says android with the flashing underscore.
so as far as I can tell I have no operating system, because I wiped system. and I'm not sure what is up with my recovery.
I'm looking at this page,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
but I'm not sure how I would flash the zip if I can't boot into anything?
any ideas would be appreciated
constellanation said:
So I was going to try and change roms. And I couldn't boot into recovery, so I made a recovery bootable sd card. Me in my glorious thinking decided I would just use it to install the internal recovery and my rom.
Once the sdcard booted into recovery I did a system/data/cache wipe. then installed clockworkmod. It succeeded, so I went to the rom I had on my card. It failed. I said I know, I'll power down, take the sdcard put cm on it and try again. wrong.
Now I can't boot into recovery on either an sdcard or without and turning on the nook regularly flashes loading and goes to the page that says android with the flashing underscore.
so as far as I can tell I have no operating system, because I wiped system. and I'm not sure what is up with my recovery.
I'm looking at this page,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
but I'm not sure how I would flash the zip if I can't boot into anything?
any ideas would be appreciated
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Try Re-burning the Newest CWR to to your SD card, maybe your SD card has gotten corrupted
CWR 3.0.1.0 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971197
Also http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
trying out your steps and I think I've realized the problem... but I can't figure out why it's doing what it's doing. I can't seem to correctly use dd to burn the image to the sdcard anymore... it worked the first 3 times I did with no problem. But now it's not working...
is there a certain format these cards need to be in? fat32, ext2/3/4?
constellanation said:
trying out your steps and I think I've realized the problem... but I can't figure out why it's doing what it's doing. I can't seem to correctly use dd to burn the image to the sdcard anymore... it worked the first 3 times I did with no problem. But now it's not working...
is there a certain format these cards need to be in? fat32, ext2/3/4?
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what OS are you using? Linux? I don't know anything DD in Linux sorry.
I have been using Windows and Win32DiskImager
I think they are Fat32 images.
Maybe try Reseting the computer, and trying again.
Yeah it keeps writing phantom images to the directory that is supposed to be where my sdcard is located... and not on to the sdcard itself...
and yeah it's linux... I'm baffled... I think I will try a restart not only on my computer but on my day...
if any linux users have any advice on writing this image I'd appreciate... goodnight all I will try again tomorrow at some point
thanks for the help though!
constellanation said:
Yeah it keeps writing phantom images to the directory that is supposed to be where my sdcard is located... and not on to the sdcard itself...
and yeah it's linux... I'm baffled... I think I will try a restart not only on my computer but on my day...
if any linux users have any advice on writing this image I'd appreciate... goodnight all I will try again tomorrow at some point
thanks for the help though!
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Make sure your Burning to the device directory and not the mount folder. (ie: /dev/sdc not /media/cardstick )
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well that was what I was doing wrong writing the image. However the nook still won't boot from them...
It just goes to the dark screen that says android in light blue with a blinking cursor at the bottom left of the screen...
constellanation said:
well that was what I was doing wrong writing the image. However the nook still won't boot from them...
It just goes to the dark screen that says android in light blue with a blinking cursor at the bottom left of the screen...
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well at least you boot Partition is intact, but sounds like you have no system or data partition.
Its very odd that the Nook wont boot off the SD card, it should look for that first in the boot Process, all i can think of is that your SD card is still not right.
I tried two different cards. The clockwork 4gb version and the 8gb version. Both looked right with the appropriate files. :/
So I don't think, though it's still a possibility, that it's the card itself
I think in the morning I'll try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870]
In combination with this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11535969&postcount=151
Specifically the reverting to aosp part. To tired to deal with cli right now.
Edit: if that fails I may try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
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Try Re-burning the Newest CWR to to your SD card, maybe your SD card has gotten corrupted
CWR 3.0.1.0 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971197
Also http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
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Silly question as I haven't been able to find the info as of yet. Could you explain how we can go about burning the newest CWR ( ie 3.0.1.0 ) so we have a bootable sdcard running it ( 3.0.1.0) instead of the older 3.0.0.6 that all the burnable imgs are currently. I looked threw the thread and I don't see any instructions or talk about how to update a bootable sdcard. It only seems to discuss updating the recovery of the eMMC using ADB or the *.zip file that is linked. Any input,advice, or link would be greatly appreciated. Peace
I must say that the monster rootpack is amazing, and I am up and running
seriously when all else fails (or if you just want to cut down to it) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
anyway problem solved, running cm7 rc1 right now!
Hello, I own a Samsung Captivate.
I had my phone plugged into USB and was transferring files. I tripped over and had it disconnect by force without safely disconnecting first.
Ever since them, phone had "unsuccessful enscripted error" or something. I did factory reset / wipe data (I dont mind doing hard reset/losing files). Still didnt work. It still kept saying Unsccessful Enscripted Error etc. So I lent it to my friend and he went on formatting all the folder in download mode, now I cant even boot to anything.
Currently, if I turn it on, it gets stuck at AT&T screen. If I plug usb onto phone, it has the little loading icon, but its frozen, its not circling around. I cant boot to download mode, I cant get Odin to detect.
Please help, I dont mind going through factory mode or w/e.
Thanks in advance!
Dan.
Download one click stock restore package(search for it on the forum). Put your phone in the download mode(there are many threads in this forum that describe how to try and force the download mode if it doesn't happen normally). Then run that one click restore package and it should work.
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Download one click stock restore package(search for it on the forum). Put your phone in the download mode(there are many threads in this forum that describe how to try and force the download mode if it doesn't happen normally). Then run that one click restore package and it should work.
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I found this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1266172
And downloaded the rooted .jar file.
It gave my bluescreen multiple times. Anyways, when I placed my phone into download mode and had the software running (bluescreen occurs), my phone went into this screen:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Note that I cannot go to recovery mode
K, long story short, that method didnt work.
Apparently, that screen is still in Download Mode, so I just went to Odin and resetted. Worked.
I tried installing gingerbread or something on it, good news is, I can now go into recovery mode. Bad news is, it still doesnt work and when I factory reset, it gives me error while formatting \data\ folder and something \android.secure.
Still proceeding to do more things on it..
**Edit**
K so, basically I used KI2 Kernel and installed on my phone from that screwd up download mode screen. This got me to Recovery Mode.
When I try to start my phone, it just loops on the introduction animation. Battery icons are now showing and moving.
Again, Im thinking its because my friend formatted the /system /dbdata /cache /data /sdcard /sd-ext. Is there way to get those back now that my recovery mode is working? I think my phone is completely missing its OS or something.
When I do factory reset from recovery mode, it says
Formatting /data...
Error mounting /data!
Skipping format...
Formatting /cache...
Formatting /dbdata...
Formatting /sdcard/.android_secure...
Error mounting /sdcard/.android_secure!
Skipping format...
Data wipe complete.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1300843
I think it might have something to do with partition format. Try flashing the UCKK4 with the bootloader version from the thread linked above. That way you'll have gingerbread bootloader if not loaded already. It'll repartition too. Once that is done, you'll have to flash corn kernel with cwm recovery. After that you'll be able to flash rom's of your choice. In future you need not flash gb bootloders.
The mode in the above pic is another form of download mode. I also had that a few times and I could use odin to flash away. I have observed that if the usb cable is already connected with the phone and if you try to put the phone into the download mode, you see this screen as opposed to normal download screen. If you disconnect the usb cable from the phone, you would see normal download mode screen.
If you still get errors pertaining to sdcard it might have become corrupt or gone bad. You could try to manually mount it via the recovery mode and format it.
Good luck!
I went on and downloaded this from the link you gave me:
"Odin One Clicks
I897UCKK4 Odin One Click - Stock, CONTAINS Bootloaders, Re-partition, Full Wipe"
Had it install successfully and got these:
Installation was done, phone rebooting and had this msg at first:
This is the screen message.
-- Copying media files...
E:failed to mount /sdcard (No such file or directory)
E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount /sdcard
your storage not prepared yet. Please use UI menu for format and reboot actions.
Media files copy failed.
# MANUAL MODE #
-- Applying Multi-CSC...
Installing Multi-CSC
Applied the CSC-Code 'ATT'.
Successfully Applied multi-CSC.
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And then on its own, it went to this screen and basically froze there:
When I turned it off and restarted, after wiping cache and whatnot, it went back to boot screen and started looping again.
I had my SD card inserted onto phone when I did this, donno why its saying its missing or not prepared..
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I tried installing other things:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=979133
And got this:
Whatever I install, its always the sdcard error..
^
There are a few threads in the Development Forum about "Encryption Unsuccessful" error...u need to have a look at those.
See here...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25993607
And here...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21439417
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4-2ndtwin said:
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There are a few threads in the Development Forum about "Encryption Unsuccessful" error...u need to have a look at those.
See here...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25993607
And here...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21439417
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Seems no help unless I missed something.
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Seems no help unless I missed something.
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"Encryption Unsuccessful" expert here...
Because there isn't a fix for it; only workarounds. It involves something physically going wrong with the storage on the phone. /data and /sdcard are long gone. It can only be fixed by random luck. Your only usable option would be to use CM9 on the external sd card (see dev section).
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I tried installing Cyanogen Mod. My phone will not be recognized for me to access the driver (I can connect and it'll recognize in Odin, just I cant see the driver to access in My Computer). When they do show up, they show up as "hidden" and I cannot access em.
I tried using micro SD card, still no luck.
Im gonna try to see if I could install using Odin One click... I'll let you guys know, thanks for all the support for now.
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Hmm, I just did quick search on Captivate's Dev section for cyanogen, couldnt find any post that's not relevant to installing by using the sd card (since I cant even place my cyanogen rar file into the card for it to be booted on phone).
am I missing something here? A thread that I missed?
A few things you could try:
1. To install cwm recovery, flash corn kernel using odin. Then try and manually mount sdcard and format it via recovery menu. If you can get into cwm recovery this way, you might be able to flash a rom from your external sd card.
2. One of the rom's (Slim Bean, Lanight or CM9...I don't remember which one for sure) mounts external sd card as /sdcard and internal as /emmc. That rom might work with your external sd card. It might be worth a try. Based on the above post, it sounds like it's CM9. If they fixed that thing, you may have to try and find a script that would map your external sd card as /sdcard.
3. I'm not sure if this is the case with i897 or not but you might want to find out if the internal sd card is removable or not. If it is, you might be able to use another one in its place. You might be able to find out that info online somewhere if you're lucky. Otherwise you would have to disassemble your phone.
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A few things you could try:
1. To install cwm recovery, flash corn kernel using odin. Then try and manually mount sdcard and format it via recovery menu. If you can get into cwm recovery this way, you might be able to flash a rom from your external sd card.
2. One of the rom's (Slim Bean, Lanight or CM9...I don't remember which one for sure) mounts external sd card as /sdcard and internal as /emmc. That rom might work with your external sd card. It might be worth a try. Based on the above post, it sounds like it's CM9. If they fixed that thing, you may have to try and find a script that would map your external sd card as /sdcard.
3. I'm not sure if this is the case with i897 or not but you might want to find out if the internal sd card is removable or not. If it is, you might be able to use another one in its place. You might be able to find out that info online somewhere if you're lucky. Otherwise you would have to disassemble your phone.
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@1. I went to CWM recovery and tried to manually mount the sdcard, it said error. (E:failed to mount /sdcard (No such file or directory)
Again, when I tried to format it, it gave me same thing, failed to mount therefore failed to format properly.
@2. I would love to have CM9 installed on my phone right now, Ive been trying everything, use my other phones to somehow get the sd card to read. I tried looking for Odin way to install CM9 or something like so, where it doesnt require me to use sd card to put the zip file into it and have it install from phone. So Im stuck there..
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"Encryption Unsuccessful" expert here...
Because there isn't a fix for it; only workarounds. It involves something physically going wrong with the storage on the phone. /data and /sdcard are long gone. It can only be fixed by random luck. Your only usable option would be to use CM9 on the external sd card (see dev section).
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This post by korockinout13 is the only way to get ur phone workin right now...
Have u tried it yet ??
And the links i posted previously have explanations about this as well.
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I'm a little confused. Is your internal sd card that is fried or your external sd card or both? If it's only the internal sd card, I'm guessing you should be able to install zip from your external sd card. If it's your external sd card that's not working then you can try using a different sd card or you could use adb to transfer the CM9 zip file to internal sd card. If both are bad then you have to try using a new external sd card. You already may be aware but I'm stating the obvious...there is an option to install a zip from either internal or external sd card via cwm recovery. Or may be that this phone requires internal sd card to be functional in order to work. I guess in that case you will have to somehow map your external sd card as /sdcard. You'll have to ask the experts here if that's feasible or not. It might have already been answered. You may want to try searching for it.
4-2ndtwin said:
This post by korockinout13 is the only way to get ur phone workin right now...
Have u tried it yet ??
And the links i posted previously have explanations about this as well.
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Im sorry, Im not being lazy here, I am rather quite confused and will need detail info, I practically dont know much about the forum nor the terms etc. I do know basic somewhat, but its very limited.
The only way I know how to install CM9 or any CMs are through external or internal sd. Internal being usb connected and place the CM zip file onto it. External, same method. However, I am in a place where I cant access Internal sd cuz my computer wont let me access the phone driver (although I could connect to Odin). External as well, is not being recognized. As you see from previous pictures, everytime I format or do w/e, it keeps saying sd card errors.
I did read a person saying this: "Assuming it doesn't, I'm going to do a Heimdall or Odin flash to CM7 or stock and go from there."
But, I also tried looking on forum for that, where I could install CM through Heimdall or Odin.. couldnt find any.
As for "uhm"'s post, my cards arent fried (I highly doubt it), and I cant do those things because I cannot access all of my cards (internal / external), I MIGHT be doing it wrong, but I mean... it should at least even show up... I tried putting the CM zip file and gapp onto external sd, couldnt boot it. I cant access phone at all so I cant download any apps to assist me either...
Ive been stuck with this for 6 days googling all over the place, so far, even finding myself to download mode and recovery mode was through XDA community's help, and that alone is greatly appreciated. Which is why I guess I am relying on this community to somehow assist me in getting my phone to work
4-2ndtwin said:
This post by korockinout13 is the only way to get ur phone workin right now...
Have u tried it yet ??
And the links i posted previously have explanations about this as well.
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Im sorry, Im not being lazy here, I am rather quite confused and will need detail info, I practically dont know much about the forum nor the terms etc. I do know basic somewhat, but its very limited.
The only way I know how to install CM9 or any CMs are through external or internal sd. Internal being usb connected and place the CM zip file onto it. External, same method. However, I am in a place where I cant access Internal sd cuz my computer wont let me access the phone driver (although I could connect to Odin). External as well, is not being recognized. As you see from previous pictures, everytime I format or do w/e, it keeps saying sd card errors.
I did read a person saying this: "Assuming it doesn't, I'm going to do a Heimdall or Odin flash to CM7 or stock and go from there."
But, I also tried looking on forum for that, where I could install CM through Heimdall or Odin.. couldnt find any.
So, as much as I want to install CM on my phone, I cant seem to figure out a way other than using sd (which is not working). I tried looking on forum, I got +10 tabs open, surrounded by sd cards / usb / chargers / other phones all over the place, been stranded without phone for 6 days... I am trying but its quite difficult for someone who practically doesnt know anything about these things XP
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As for "uhm"'s post, my cards arent fried (I highly doubt it), and I cant do those things because I cannot access all of my cards (internal / external), I MIGHT be doing it wrong, but I mean... it should at least even show up... I tried putting the CM zip file and gapp onto external sd, couldnt boot it. I cant access phone at all so I cant download any apps to assist me either...
Ive been stuck with this for 6 days googling all over the place, so far, even finding myself to download mode and recovery mode was through XDA community's help, and that alone is greatly appreciated. Which is why I guess I am relying on this community to somehow assist me in getting my phone to work
Flash corn kernel usig odin... it has a built-in cwm recovery and that should let you get into the recovery mode and flash from your external sd card. The pics above show that you have stock recovery and not cwm. Therefore you can't see those zip files to flash rom's. After you flash kernel don't try normal boot. Press the required keys to get into the recovery mode. Search this forum to download corn kernel for uckk4 rom.
P.S.:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1294477 Download it from this thread and select that file for PDA section in odin and flash it.
I guess Im missing some picture, I do have the exact thing you are talking about and I do have CWM recovery (4.0.1.5).
When I try to install the CM9 zip from sd card using recovery mode, it says "E:Can't mount /sdcard" "Error mounting /sdcard"
And when I do apply sd card update, it also says
-- Installing: /sdcard/update.zip
Finding update package...
E:Can't mount /sdcard/update.zip
Installation aborted.
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I guess Im missing some picture, I do have the exact thing you are talking about and I do have CWM recovery (4.0.1.5).
When I try to install the CM9 zip from sd card using recovery mode, it says "E:Can't mount /sdcard" "Error mounting /sdcard"
And when I do apply sd card update, it also says
-- Installing: /sdcard/update.zip
Finding update package...
E:Can't mount /sdcard/update.zip
Installation aborted.
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You should have cwm version 5.x.x.x if you flashed the correct kernel if I'm not mistaken. Also you shouldn't be applying update.zip. You should be navigating to CM9 zip and then selecting it to flash it. There are two places to select zip from...internel and external sd card. Based on the error message, it seems like you're trying to go after internal sd card. I think in the recovery menu, install from sdcard option takes you to internal sd card. try the other option..I think it is labelled as install from internal sd card..I know it's misleading. Basically navigate to the right place and try again. Otherwise I suppose without a working built-in sd card, it would be very difficult to flash another rom. If that happens try looking into swapping the mapping of your external and internal sd cards. I think there are some scripts somewhere in this forum. Don't know if that will help you for sure or not as I never had to look into it so far.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711150 is what I'm talking about. It says you need internal sd but I'm fairly certain you can get around it.
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Hello.
I was today gonna install tonyp paranoidandroid 14 beta, but I am having problems going to new bootloader. I got it flashed through nvflash and all-in-one tool, but when I come to if I wanna fix my internal sd card, I of course say yes, but it doesnt work. It says it is waiting for the device to enter recovery.
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I tried this twice. First I flashed it normally, then plugged the cable out, went to recovery and pressed to continue in the toolkit, without noticing I should plug the cable back in when at recovery. I rebooted to recovery with cable still in, and went in usb storage. Nothing changed in toolkit. Now I didnt know what to do, so I closed the program and did the whole process again, this time making sure to keep the cable connected when I went to fix internal sd card. Still nothing happens. Now I dont know what to do. Can I fix this internal SD card by some other method? Why isnt it working? I really need my phone back working before dinner today, and really dont want to go back to my backup.
Thank you for all of your answers. I really appreciate it.
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Hello.
I was today gonna install tonyp paranoidandroid 14 beta, but I am having problems going to new bootloader. I got it flashed through nvflash and all-in-one tool, but when I come to if I wanna fix my internal sd card, I of course say yes, but it doesnt work. It says it is waiting for the device to enter recovery.
I tried this twice. First I flashed it normally, then plugged the cable out, went to recovery and pressed to continue in the toolkit, without noticing I should plug the cable back in when at recovery. I rebooted to recovery with cable still in, and went in usb storage. Nothing changed in toolkit. Now I didnt know what to do, so I closed the program and did the whole process again, this time making sure to keep the cable connected when I went to fix internal sd card. Still nothing happens. Now I dont know what to do. Can I fix this internal SD card by some other method? Why isnt it working? I really need my phone back working before dinner today, and really dont want to go back to my backup.
Thank you for all of your answers. I really appreciate it.
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my friend,
if you read the OP in the AIOT, spyrosk has clearly stated this in option 4:
"Safety keys: If any of the “SD-Card fix” or “Enable Dual-Boot” step fails go to ToolkitFiles\tools folder and run the IntSD-MountFix.cmd or DualBoot-Enable.cmd accordingly. Attention: Both scripts are designed to run as standalone scripts also. The IntSD-MountFix.cmd is harmless "
Check this....if you are using the TWRP or CWM, flash a ROM using internal SD card, then you will know if it works.
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my friend,
if you read the OP in the AIOT, spyrosk has clearly stated this in option 4:
"Safety keys: If any of the “SD-Card fix” or “Enable Dual-Boot” step fails go to ToolkitFiles\tools folder and run the IntSD-MountFix.cmd or DualBoot-Enable.cmd accordingly. Attention: Both scripts are designed to run as standalone scripts also. The IntSD-MountFix.cmd is harmless "
Check this....if you are using the TWRP or CWM, flash a ROM using internal SD card, then you will know if it works.
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I try to run this script. No difference. It says "waiting for the device to enter recovery.. " still. I got CWM v5.0.2.8e installed and got APX drivers. I have no idea how to fix the internal sd card without this script, cause it clearly isnt working for me... I need this to work :|
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I try to run this script. No difference. It says "waiting for the device to enter recovery.. " still. I got CWM v5.0.2.8e installed and got APX drivers. I have no idea how to fix the internal sd card without this script, cause it clearly isnt working for me... I need this to work :|
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Have you checked after you entered the recovery the first time(when the intSD Card fix in AIOT was with waiting for the device to enter recovery)...if you can flash a ROM from the internal SD and use it once boot is complete?
SREEPRAJAY said:
Have you checked after you entered the recovery the first time(when the intSD Card fix in AIOT was with waiting for the device to enter recovery)...if you can flash a ROM from the internal SD and use it once boot is complete?
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Not sure if I do this correctly but I try this now:
Quick format the disk that needs to be formatted according to my Windows 7, disk space of 4,6 GB i format in fat32 quick format, 4096 byte. Transfer tonyp paranoidandroid beta, as well as gapps and camera app to this disk. Unmount, flash paranoidandroid, then gapps, then launch and flash camera fix later from internal SD.
^ I tried the above and it failed when I start install paranoidandroid. It says:
Installing: /emmc/pa_p990-2.6-14-newbl-tonyp.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "p990" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "p990"
E:Error in /emmc/pa_p990-2.6-14-newbl-tonyp.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted
Hope that can help you pros find the fault?? I have no clue what to do when things aint working. I try to google but find different phones and different problems...
EDIT: I flashed again and changed to cwm v6.0.2.5. I try to install from sdcard, and it says E: Can't mount /sdcard/. I suppose that has to do with the internal fix not working. I can install my rom from external SD, and did so earlier before I formatted again hoping to get internal sd fix working. When I was running the ROM, it said my sd card needed to be formatted (which I presume was the external sd for some reason? I wont format that, too many files and too slow a card). Going to about phone in settings didnt work, then settings would crash, but the rest of settings appeared to work. Camera did not work as I did not have external storage it said. Dont think there is anything else I noted. I dont even know if this is relevant... But is there no other way to fix internal sd card? I tried restart PC and install apx drivers again, but the install is instantaneous as it is already on my PC.
Espenol said:
I try to run this script. No difference. It says "waiting for the device to enter recovery.. " still. I got CWM v5.0.2.8e installed and got APX drivers. I have no idea how to fix the internal sd card without this script, cause it clearly isnt working for me... I need this to work :|
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I have done this 5 times after you reported this issue...each time it worked perfectly.
after you got this message 'waiting for the device to enter recovery', have you clicked on any key inserting the USB cable to the device? and then after inserting click on any key in PC.....thats it.
There is no issue with the AIOT as I have performed 5 times....absolutely perfect flashing without any issues....
Can you describe what you did one by one....maybe we can find the error.
Espenol said:
Hello.
I was today gonna install tonyp paranoidandroid 14 beta, but I am having problems going to new bootloader. I got it flashed through nvflash and all-in-one tool, but when I come to if I wanna fix my internal sd card, I of course say yes, but it doesnt work. It says it is waiting for the device to enter recovery.
I tried this twice. First I flashed it normally, then plugged the cable out, went to recovery and pressed to continue in the toolkit, without noticing I should plug the cable back in when at recovery. I rebooted to recovery with cable still in, and went in usb storage. Nothing changed in toolkit. Now I didnt know what to do, so I closed the program and did the whole process again, this time making sure to keep the cable connected when I went to fix internal sd card. Still nothing happens. Now I dont know what to do. Can I fix this internal SD card by some other method? Why isnt it working? I really need my phone back working before dinner today, and really dont want to go back to my backup.
Thank you for all of your answers. I really appreciate it.
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There is another method you can use to fix your internal SD. Dont know if it works on the latest versions of toolkit, but expected to.
See the "IntSD-MountFix.zip" attached to the first post of the AIO toolkit thread.
Flash it after partitioning, when your phone boots into recovery for the first time. Then reboot recovery and wipe and flash the ROM. Thats it.
The need to flash this zip was eliminated by spyrosk in later versions of the toolkit, by including a script in the toolkit itself. But since that isnt working for you, use the zip.
If you are thinking of how to put the zip inside the SD card to flash it, there are various ways, such as mounting external SD in recovery(mount USB storage), putting in external SD through some card reader and then putting the external SD inside the phone, or using adb sideload to flash it.
Alright, thanks both of you. I didnt use that .zip file yet for fixing internal memory. As far as I can understand, the fix is for making internal sd card mountable on PCs and the like? I have my phone connected now, and can see both internal sd card and external sd card on my phone. Do I even need the fix then? If I now install it, will I have to set up everything on my phone again? I spent all last night customizing everything and getting it how I want it to be... dont wanna do that again..
what do you mean with setting up everything again do you mean with the system or the sdcard? if you mean sdcard then the sdcard fix wil reformat the internal sd.
By the aio toolkit the auto internal sdcard fix worked for me by the TWRP from tonyp 2.5 and 2.6
Ok, I wiped everything again and ran the zip. It said internal sd was fine -__- all this trouble lol. Now I have new questions that are unrelated to original question but still need answering.
1. I did the factory reset wipe, cache wipe and dalvik cache wipe, yet my phone still remembers WiFi password when I install tonyp paranoidandroid 14 and gapps. It connected straight to my wifi. How can that be? What did I forget to wipe? should I wipe that thing I forgot?
2. My phone is automatically downloading all the apps I installed yesterday. This is the first time it has happened in my 10 custom roms on my 2 phones. Why is it happening? I love it!!
3. How do I replace the settings.apk I have with a new one? Check paranoidandroid thread on o2x development to see what i mean. I tried to just install, but it has failed me. After failed install I couldnt open settings at all. I read somewhere that I should copy the new settings.apk to system/apps and replace the settings.apk that is already there. That failed though, when I tried to move it in file manager in root mode. What do I do? I wish I could just flash it in, but it is apk file and not zip sooo I probably cant...
4. What is the best camera app I can flash? I pretty much only use camera for Snapchat and the occasional pictures when climbing mountains and no other camera is available... Suggestions?
The internal SD fix was for fixing SD mount in ROMs, not on PC. And it says mounted correctly, after fixing the mount, so it has done its job.
Now for your new questions:
1.google account backs up and restores wifi password
2. Similar to 1. You checked the option "restore apps from my Google account" at the setup screen, so it installs your apps
3.use a root file manager to push it to system/app and set permission to rw-r--r--
4. Camera mods have been made by Jishnu Sur, feav and defcomg. You can find them and try them, then pick one which you like, it's a personal choice.
My problem is almost similar to this , except the cause, and the seriousness
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2325101.
Could anyone report the rom problem to the official(i do not know how to access to them) and could the official give a solution? :crying:
If anyone could help me solve the problem, please tell the method step by step , i am not good at computer. If solving the problem need any files please post the downloading threads.Thanks.
I think the reason why I could not install the cm10.2 again maybe caused by load the internal memory too much. I saw someone said to install the cm would not format the data in the internal memory. When the memory is almost full , it won't install apps . Maybe it can not rewrite the rom. If so , how can i delete my personal data .?Now i can not boot the tablet , and even can not connect it to a PC. I am at a loss and very worried. I am out of USA , and it is almost impossible for me to return it to B&N to have it repaired. Could anyone here give some advice to repair it .
I asked verygreen , and he gave me an answer
There appears to be a bug in internal storage software used in Nook HDs that leads to internal storage dying under certain conditions, though the conditions are not exactly clear, but it also seems to do with a new feature added in Android 4.3
I disabled this feature on 8/15, though it's not yet clear if 8/15 nightly was built with that added or not.
The bug is not unique to Nooks too, Some Galaxy Note devices that use a very similar samsung-branded internal storage also have this problem.
But not gave the solution , could anyone solve this problem and give the solution step by step to me, thanks. i am just at a loss here
I'm having a similar issue except I can get the nook logo on screen and sometimes the Cyanoboot Universal Bootloader screen. Both freeze at that point though.
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Ogre6473 said:
I'm having a similar issue except I can get the nook logo on screen and sometimes the Cyanoboot Universal Bootloader screen. Both freeze at that point though.
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I think this fatal problem is very common . Does anyone else have the same problem? If so , reporting here to get the officials' attention . Now verygreen is working on it , but he hasn't given the solving date .
nookhdplus said:
I think this fatal problem is very common . Does anyone else have the same problem? If so , reporting here to get the officials' attention . Now verygreen is working on it , but he hasn't given the solving date .
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looks like we have the same problem you can try requesting to verygreen here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2221289
Same problem here.
I'm using cm-10.2-20130815-NIGHTLY-ovation and gapps-jb-20130813-signed. Same problem as above. boots to Nook loading screen and that's it. I left the device connected to my PC copying files and came back to a dead device. Charged it and now it's not booting at all.
brickinit said:
I'm using cm-10.2-20130815-NIGHTLY-ovation and gapps-jb-20130813-signed. Same problem as above. boots to Nook loading screen and that's it. I left the device connected to my PC copying files and came back to a dead device. Charged it and now it's not booting at all.
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Now I can nearly confirm there is a fatal bug in the 8/15 rom , so many are affected by it .I recommand others not to update to the cm10.2 before the problem is solved and the official should offshelve it from the website and give a solution as quickly as possible.
talha970 said:
looks like we have the same problem you can try requesting to verygreen here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2221289
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BTW, which rom did you use when the problem occured ? Is it the 8/15 version?
brickinit said:
I'm using cm-10.2-20130815-NIGHTLY-ovation and gapps-jb-20130813-signed. Same problem as above. boots to Nook loading screen and that's it. I left the device connected to my PC copying files and came back to a dead device. Charged it and now it's not booting at all.
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Booting to Nook loading screen (with no sdcard in) is different symptoms from the total emmc brick, because when emmc is bricked, so no loading scring could be possible.
In any case, the important part is, if somebody has a total bricked device and would like to donate it to me for further research on unbricking (and I will return it if succeeded), shoot me a PM.
Or if you have a brick and feel technically advanced enough to be able to run various custom kernels, CWMs, have adb working and know how to use it and are familiar with linux and willing to try to help, also PM me.
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Booting to Nook loading screen (with no sdcard in) is different symptoms from the total emmc brick, because when emmc is bricked, so no loading scring could be possible.
In any case, the important part is, if somebody has a total bricked device and would like to donate it to me for further research on unbricking (and I will return it if succeeded), shoot me a PM.
Or if you have a brick and feel technically advanced enough to be able to run various custom kernels, CWMs, have adb working and know how to use it and are familiar with linux and willing to try to help, also PM me.
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I would donate my totally bricked tablet to you but there is too much personal info in it.
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I would donate my totally bricked tablet to you but there is too much personal info in it.
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The info is likely not recoverable without some significant effort anyway, but I certainly can understand this decision too.
Count me too in the list of bricked HD+s. I was on CM10.2 0815.
It started with a reboot, but the boot process got rebooted again. Now it would just hang on Cyanoboot screen. I have tried SD Recovery but it showed that sd card or EMMC cannot be mounted. Now it will not even boot to recovery from SD card. I have tried the bootloader which gives you an option to choose SD recovery or boot normally and the boot loader loads but it cannot boot to either EMMC or SD recovery.
Worse part is that it hangs on the Cyanoboot screen. Not sure even Nook will honor the warranty.
Edit: BTW I never installed fstrim or anything like that. It probably was the 0813 version that initiated it but I wonder why it failed in 0815 when trim has been removed?
excalibar001 said:
Count me too in the list of bricked HD+s. I was on CM10.2 0815.
It started with a reboot, but the boot process got rebooted again. Now it would just hang on Cyanoboot screen. I have tried SD Recovery but it showed that sd card or EMMC cannot be mounted. Now it will not even boot to recovery from SD card. I have tried the bootloader which gives you an option to choose SD recovery or boot normally and the boot loader loads but it cannot boot to either EMMC or SD recovery.
Worse part is that it hangs on the Cyanoboot screen. Not sure even Nook will honor the warranty.
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if it boots into CM logo with no sdcard in, then your emmc is at least answering, chances are you can just flash stock zip from leapinlair's stock hints thread from my noemmc sdcard cwm (or his from his thread)
Also failing that if you are just interested in warranty service, boot from my noemmc cwm, adb shell in and execute this:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk1p1
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk1p2
this will make the cyanogen logo display go away and you'll just have black screen on boot.
verygreen said:
if it boots into CM logo with no sdcard in, then your emmc is at least answering, chances are you can just flash stock zip from leapinlair's stock hints thread from my noemmc sdcard cwm (or his from his thread)
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Thank you verygreen, you are very kind to respond to each and everyone.
I have tried a number of different sdcard recoveries including cwm-early7.1 and leapinlair's as well, but the tablet never finishes booting even the recovery. If it is just SD card recovery, it will keep showing the cyanoboot screen. I modified the recovery (from Leapinlair's provided file) that gives you an option to boot into SD card recovery or into Stock rom (which does not exist for me but just an option). I get the option screen but selecting the SD card recovery just freezes the tablet.
I was planning to
1) write the recovery to sdcard,
2) increase the size of the recovery partition using EASUS partition manager,
3) putting emmc recovery, stock or CM rom, and gapps in the expanded partition
4) booting into it and installing all of these
but I never get into booting into recovery with or without expanded sd recovery. I also tried every sdcard recovery out there. No success.
excalibar001 said:
Thank you verygreen, you are very kind to respond to each and everyone.
I have tried a number of different sdcard recoveries including cwm-early7.1 and leapinlair's as well, but the tablet never finishes booting even the recovery. If it is just SD card recovery, it will keep showing the cyanoboot screen. I modified the recovery (from Leapinlair's provided file) that gives you an option to boot into SD card recovery or into Stock rom (which does not exist for me but just an option). I get the option screen but selecting the SD card recovery just freezes the tablet.
I was planning to
1) write the recovery to sdcard,
2) increase the size of the recovery partition using EASUS partition manager,
3) putting emmc recovery, stock or CM rom, and gapps in the expanded partition
4) booting into it and installing all of these
but I never get into booting into recovery with or without expanded sd recovery. I also tried every sdcard recovery out there. No success.
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try recovery from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44790925&postcount=67
note it reverts sdcard and emmc, so now sdcard is mmc0 and emmc is mmc1 (does not matter for stock as it installs using named aliases anyway, but matters if you plan to do any commands by hand in terminal).
This recovery certainly works even when emmc is totally dead so should work for you too.
verygreen said:
try recovery from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44790925&postcount=67
note it reverts sdcard and emmc, so now sdcard is mmc0 and emmc is mmc1 (does not matter for stock as it installs using named aliases anyway, but matters if you plan to do any commands by hand in terminal).
This recovery certainly works even when emmc is totally dead so should work for you too.
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Hi Verygreen, what's your suggestion on contacting b&n? since it's still under warranty and I can't even turn it on so should I send it in for repair or replace?
Riddleric said:
Hi Verygreen, what's your suggestion on contacting b&n? since it's still under warranty and I can't even turn it on so should I send it in for repair or replace?
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it does not really matter. "repair" is a codeword for "replace" these days, it's just they get your unit in and then send you one of their pile of repaired units, then see if they can fix yours and if they can, they add it to the refurbished pile to send to whoever send their stuff in next, or to sell through some side channel.
And of course I do recommend you to go the repair/replace route (unless you want to donate a broken unit to me for further research, of course ). Who knows, you might even win the emmc lottery and get emmc that is not buggy too.
verygreen said:
try recovery from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44790925&postcount=67
note it reverts sdcard and emmc, so now sdcard is mmc0 and emmc is mmc1 (does not matter for stock as it installs using named aliases anyway, but matters if you plan to do any commands by hand in terminal).
This recovery certainly works even when emmc is totally dead so should work for you too.
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Thanks verygreen
I have noticed something else. When I connect the nook to pc without a sdcard, I can see a Blaze_Tablet while if i (try to boot) from sdcard, it shows a B&N Nook HD+ with a question mark. Does it tell you anything.
When it shows that a nook has been connected, I tried installing the drivers from LeapinLair page but windows says that no compatible drivers found. I think I have to get to install those drivers before I could connect using ADB.
When and if I boot to sdcard recovery, what should be I doing next to fix the tablet?
excalibar001 said:
Thanks verygreen
I have noticed something else. When I connect the nook to pc without a sdcard, I can see a Blaze_Tablet while if i (try to boot) from sdcard, it shows a B&N Nook HD+ with a question mark. Does it tell you anything.
When it shows that a nook has been connected, I tried installing the drivers from LeapinLair page but windows says that no compatible drivers found. I think I have to get to install those drivers before I could connect using ADB.
When and if I boot to sdcard recovery, what should be I doing next to fix the tablet?
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see if you can mount /cache:
in adb shell:
mount /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/cache /cache
if that does not work, try reformatting it:
mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/cache
see if that succeeds.
then try rebooting again without sdcard and see if that helped.