I rooted my NC yesterday using the auto-nooter 2.12.25. Things seemed OK. I DLed some apps & used them. Got ADW launcher loaded and began setting it up for my preferences. The NC went most of the way through an update cycle even though I had already updated to version 1.0.1. However this time it never got to the green "n" and then it started cycling through the part where it comes up & writes "nook color", continues until the colors quit flashing & then starts back at "nook color".
None of the buttons seem to have any effect. I tried to follow the 'solution' entitled "NookColor Fix Boot Loops". I tried both the auto-nooter SD card and then when that didn't work, I tried the original manual nooter SD card.
Anyone have another idea to fix this. I'd really appreciate some help. A PM would be great or just answer here.
I had the same problem earilier today, I held down the power button until it did a complete reset (about 8 seconds of holding). It is working great since.
Thanks. I had already tried that, several times.
restore to factory and start again?
add http : // www to front of links with out the spaces i don't have the 8 post count needed to post links and
am not going to just reply needless info to 8 post to get rights to post links to help
don't get me wrong i believe it is a very good policy
unrooting
.nookdevs.com/NookColor_UnRooting
flashback to clean stock
.nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
i have not tried any of these methods no need to but i do so much messing up
i guess eventually i will with that said this might be a long way around to your solution
read both carefully
Thanks, nookroot but this is not working.
Method 1 for unrooting - Holding those 3 keys together for over 30 seconds has no effect.
Method 2 for unrooting - I can't unroot with method 2 because the NC has to boot before I can go to settings.
Any other suggestions? In fact it seems that if it ever does power off, the only way to make it power on is to plug in its USB cord & this doesn't always work. When it does it just stats cycling. Sometimes it seems to just power up on its own and start cycling.
Whatever happened, since it's rooted I can't return it to B&N and I don't seem to be able to unroot it. Effectively I have bricked it even though many people say that's impossible.
Edit: something new just happened & I was able to go through the method 1 reset. It's booting now & looks like the B&N screen is coming up. I'm not sure how it happened. I'm going to leave it unrooted until I feel adventurous (or foolish) again.
P.S. Came back with version 1.0.0 SW.
My Nook Color has been rooted on 1.1 using autonooter for the past few months. I wanted to start fresh before updating to 1.2 to avoid any potential problems during the update, so I reverted to the stock, unrooted firmware. I wiped the media partitions and successfully interrupted the boot process 8 times. The Nook reset itself correctly, but it will not register now. I can choose a network, and the NC tells me it is connected, but when I go to the next step, the circle in the center of the screen just keeps spinning. I don't get a message saying I have a bad connection or anything - the timer circle in the center of the screen just keeps spinning. I have turned it on/off, tried multiple wifi networks, and redid the factory install by interrupting the boot process again.... all to no avail. Any ideas as to what the problem is? Ultimately, I'll go back to B&N and see what they can do, but there is none close to me. Any help is greatly appreciated thanks.
I had a similar problem this morning under similar circumstances. The device would not re-register. I contacted B&N at 800 843 2665 and requested a manual reset. Be prepared to provide them with the initial set up information including credit card and serial number. Your device should be ready to re-register in 3-4 hours.
Try turning off the Nook and then Hold N+Power button. Follow onscreen instructions.
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brendan6q66 said:
My Nook Color has been rooted on 1.1 using autonooter for the past few months. I wanted to start fresh before updating to 1.2 to avoid any potential problems during the update, so I reverted to the stock, unrooted firmware. I wiped the media partitions and successfully interrupted the boot process 8 times. The Nook reset itself correctly, but it will not register now. I can choose a network, and the NC tells me it is connected, but when I go to the next step, the circle in the center of the screen just keeps spinning. I don't get a message saying I have a bad connection or anything - the timer circle in the center of the screen just keeps spinning. I have turned it on/off, tried multiple wifi networks, and redid the factory install by interrupting the boot process again.... all to no avail. Any ideas as to what the problem is? Ultimately, I'll go back to B&N and see what they can do, but there is none close to me. Any help is greatly appreciated thanks.
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I'm sure that you know by now that it's a problem with B&N. My nook actually just was able to complete the registration after being out for hours.
I kept getting stuck at the same screen earlier, went online and found out how to skip the registration. I did that, then went and did a factory reset on the nook. Turned it off, and then back on, and I was able to re-register successfully. Coincidence?
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I'm sure that you know by now that it's a problem with B&N. My nook actually just was able to complete the registration after being out for hours.
I kept getting stuck at the same screen earlier, went online and found out how to skip the registration. I did that, then went and did a factory reset on the nook. Turned it off, and then back on, and I was able to re-register successfully. Coincidence?
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A friend is having this problem. Can you post the link showing how to skip registration so we can try this?
Thanks.
lyam23 said:
A friend is having this problem. Can you post the link showing how to skip registration so we can try this?
Thanks.
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Just turn off your Nook and hold N+Power for 6 seconds. Follow the On Screen Instructions and it'll Perform a Factory Reset. That easy.
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I'm having the same issue as this guy: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1156371
I let my nook battery get really low... too low to boot. So, I hooked it up to charge and then it began doing the loop. It comes to the "nook color" splash screen and gets part way through the word "color" when it starts all over.
My question is two-fold:
1) Is there some way to fix this?
2) If the answer to the above is 'no', then how do I boot into Clockwork? It's some combination of holding the 'n' during boot... right?
I've been having this problem too. The way to get back into CWM is to use the rhythm method:
hold nook N key and then press and hold power until the "Loading..." message appears and then disappears with screen going blank. Release power button, then press it again and hold for ~5 seconds, the bootloader "Loading..." message should be on the screen for three seconds or so before you release power button, keep holding N button until screen blanks again. If the screen went off while you were holding the power key, that means you were holding it for too long.
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Now as for fixing the boot loop... I've actually given up on 1.3 manual nooter and gone back to CM7.1 for now... That fixed it, although there are plenty of reasons for wanting stock rooted.
I'm having this issue now. It probably is because I formatted the SD card (if just to make the bloody status pop-up go away...), but I have...well, another problem.
I can't even start trying a fix because I can't shut the thing off. >.> Do I have to wait for my battery to die?
Edit: Got it to turn off (Hold Volume UP+DOWN and Power key), but I can't get it to boot to CWM. There's no 'loading...' screen, just "Read Forever" Then the N screen. =\ I might just act as if I was rooting it for the first time (flash SD card, boot by plugging it in to PC, etc.)
Did you ever get this fixed? I'm having this problem now.
Edit: Nevermind. I wound up wiping and re-installing.
I had a boot loop issue with Manual Nooter. My issue and soln here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19116889&postcount=10
Good Luck.
I've the same problem. It've fixed by:
Right after rooting. Download astro file manager from the market. Go into /system/app and delete Adobe Air, Adobe Flash.
After deleting them .. Just go into Market, download and re-install them again. Should fix your problem.
This boot loop issue has become a serious problem for me. I have re-imaged my Nook Color 3 times, twice with 1.2.0 and once with 1.3.0. All three times the install was successful but upon re-boot I wound up in this loop lock. I got my Nook to run the Kindle android app as most of the technical books that I wanted on the Nook are not available from Dunn and Bradstreet. I've down loaded $350 worth of e-books from Amazon and now I can't download them again. I tied this Flash and Air trick but it didn't fix the problem. So now I've burned $350 in e-books plus the cost of the Nook and memory card. I should have just bought an I-Pad. This is beyond unfunny.
There seems to be some issues with Youtube that can cause this issue. I had to give up on running 1.3 rooted and go to CM 7.1.
It looks to me like the Adobe applications cited above may actually be causing this loop lock problem. With the auto-updates turned off it looks like the loop lock on the Nook Color banner does not occur for a while. Eventually the updates get turned on somehow, and the loop lock occurs. The android OS looks like it's built on a Linux base. I was unable to gain superuser status (perhaps I just don't know how to do it). Without it all I could do was to update Adobe Air and Adobe Flash. As soon as that is done, the loop lock occurs.
Correction to the above comment.
I guess I'm a little brain dead after all this re-imaging. What I meant to say above was the the technical and text books that I was referring to, are not available from Barnes & Noble (not D&B duh!), nor any of their e-book business partners. I would have gladly purchased them from B&N in ePub format.
After putting the Nook Color back to stock condition (1.2.0), I reinstalled the ManualNooter 4-6-16 then immediately attempted the fix recommended above.
In any case, I downloaded the Astro File manager, but since i could not figure out how to obtain superuser status (even with the superuser app) it would not let me remove the two Adobe applications. I could only update them. When they were updated, the banner locked up on the first re-boot. Unlike, the first lock up it displayed the full banner continuously, without completing the boot.
Without source code, it's impossible to tell if there is a bounds problem created by the rooting process, or if this is something else. Someone smarter than I will have to solve the problem.
I think I'm moving on to the less than ideal Kindle Fire, whenever one becomes available. If anyone wants a brand new Nook Color it will show up on e-Bay in a couple of days.
Has anyone here tried rebooting with the sd card removed? This is what worked (previously) for me.
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Now the removal of the SD isn't working... Trying the Abobe AIR and Flash replacement fix mentioned here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308304
the adobe air / flash replacement fix worked for me.
Hello all,
Been a satisfied user of nook hd+ with emmc. Yesterday, leaking water from my bag soaked my sleeve that I put my HD+, and as a result, I noticed that the HD+ didn't turn on after that.
After a day or so of drying and powering (with no luck), I plugged the device to the charger. Then I saw the green light and the red light flashing multiple times. On the screen, the nook sign turned on as well as the cyanomod introduction screen. However, after that, the device shuts off completely. The system didn't respond to the power button after that, and the charger indicator light didn't turn on after that. I tried leaving the charger on all night but same pattern showed.
I suspected that due to the liquid spill, something happened to the internals that effected the battery.
Now my questions are:
1. Does Nook HD+ deal with spills in the warranty(don't think so)? If not, is there a spill sensor (like the iphone and samsung phones where if it gets wet it changes color, etc) ? Can local barnes and nobles stores deal with device warranty, etc?
2. I remember that warranty also involves the machine has to not be rooted, etc, and therefore will have to be brought back to factory settings. I will have to check, but if I didn't make a stock backup of my own, can I still put an emmc cm10.1 device back to factory settings using the files available in xda? I did register my device via nook servers.
3. As a followup to 1, if there is some drying and/or reassembly required, are there any videos or instructions on opening the cover of the nook hd+? I only saw some videos in youtube for opening the nook hd color, but couldn't find any on hd+.
Thanks to all the help in advance.
I'll answer your last question first. There is an HD+ teardown thread and video here.
Your local B&N store can deal with warranty. They just look up your serial number to see when you registered it and verify it does not work and they will issue you a new one.
But you are right that putting CM on it voids the warranty. If they can see any evidence it has had CM on it they will not honor the warranty. But yours does not power on, so I'm not sure they can tell.
If you did not replace the stock recovery with either verygreen's or my recovery, you might be able to do an 8 failed boot reset, but it sounds like it does not even power on.
And if you can boot to your CWM SD, you can put stock back on it by flashing one of my stock ROMs in my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature. But I suspect you cannot boot to it.
Thanks Leapinlar for the fast and informative advice. I will follow your steps and update the post if necessary.
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I'll answer your last question first. There is an HD+ teardown thread and video here.
Your local B&N store can deal with warranty. They just look up your serial number to see when you registered it and verify it does not work and they will issue you a new one.
But you are right that putting CM on it voids the warranty. If they can see any evidence it has had CM on it they will not honor the warranty. But yours does not power on, so I'm not sure they can tell.
If you did not replace the stock recovery with either verygreen's or my recovery, you might be able to do an 8 failed boot reset, but it sounds like it does not even power on.
And if you can boot to your CWM SD, you can put stock back on it by flashing one of my stock ROMs in my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature. But I suspect you cannot boot to it.
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Actually, I do have an issue right now though- I find that when I first plug the charger in, I see the "nook", then the "cyanoboot" screen briefly comes up before it shuts off. Now I would have to assume that the BN rep will check by plugging the device to see if it doesn't turn on, and will consequently see the cyanoboot screen. Is there any way I can at least get that screen to just display nook? I have yet to try plugging the cwm sd.
tia
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Actually, I do have an issue right now though- I find that when I first plug the charger in, I see the "nook", then the "cyanoboot" screen briefly comes up before it shuts off. Now I would have to assume that the BN rep will check by plugging the device to see if it doesn't turn on, and will consequently see the cyanoboot screen. Is there any way I can at least get that screen to just display nook? I have yet to try plugging the cwm sd.
tia
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The only hope you have is if you can boot to CWM SD. But that cyanoboot screen gives me hope. You may be able to repair it with that.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
leapinlar said:
The only hope you have is if you can boot to CWM SD. But that cyanoboot screen gives me hope. You may be able to repair it with that.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Alright, I tried putting in the cwm SD, and what happens is that it gets to the main menu. I got it to the "factory reset", and it says wiping /data.. but after that the thing shuts off. When I take the SD out and restart, sometimes it actually fires up the device all the way to the beginning screen, but then shuts off. During this brief moment I noticed that the battery meter was shown at full.
I also called up the local BN and found out because I bought it at a different store other than BN, I won't be able to get it exchanged- I would have to call and register a claim.
I guess now my main issue now is to wipe out everything somehow, or at least get rid of the beginning cyanoboot screen, so that the corporate nook won't notice this issue.
If nothing I am planning to actually use the steps to open up the casing and attempt drying out whatever precipitation is left and hope that it will work. However, I am worried that they will notice the casing has been tampered with and void my warranty.
Any help and/or more advice will be helpful!
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Alright, I tried putting in the cwm SD, and what happens is that it gets to the main menu. I got it to the "factory reset", and it says wiping /data.. but after that the thing shuts off. When I take the SD out and restart, sometimes it actually fires up the device all the way to the beginning screen, but then shuts off. During this brief moment I noticed that the battery meter was shown at full.
I also called up the local BN and found out because I bought it at a different store other than BN, I won't be able to get it exchanged- I would have to call and register a claim.
I guess now my main issue now is to wipe out everything somehow, or at least get rid of the beginning cyanoboot screen, so that the corporate nook won't notice this issue.
If nothing I am planning to actually use the steps to open up the casing and attempt drying out whatever precipitation is left and hope that it will work. However, I am worried that they will notice the casing has been tampered with and void my warranty.
Any help and/or more advice will be helpful!
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Wiping data does not really help. See if you can flash the stock recovery from my HD/HD+ CWM thread, item 5. Then see if you can flash the stock zip I also have there.
And that is BS about B&N not honoring the warranty because you bought it somewhere else. I bought my HD at Target and registered it with B&N. I had a problem, took it to B&N, they looked up the serial number, saw I registered it less than a year ago and they gave me a new one. Before I did that I had asked an associate there if I needed the receipt and she said no, they just look on the computer, and if I did not have an extended warranty from Target, they could take care of it. And when I came back a few days later, that is exactly what they did.
When you take it in to your store, since they seem to be finicky, don't mention where you bought it or show them your receipt.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
Pour some more water into it. With some sugar.
Oops not sugar salt then? Pepper? WD40? (Looking around my humble abode for appropriate "solutions.")
leapinlar said:
Wiping data does not really help. See if you can flash the stock recovery from my HD/HD+ CWM thread, item 5. Then see if you can flash the stock zip I also have there.
And that is BS about B&N not honoring the warranty because you bought it somewhere else. I bought my HD at Target and registered it with B&N. I had a problem, took it to B&N, they looked up the serial number, saw I registered it less than a year ago and they gave me a new one. Before I did that I had asked an associate there if I needed the receipt and she said no, they just look on the computer, and if I did not have an extended warranty from Target, they could take care of it. And when I came back a few days later, that is exactly what they did.
When you take it in to your store, since they seem to be finicky, don't mention where you bought it or show them your receipt.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Yeah I tried flashing your zip file, but now the response never even gets to reading the sd card- it just shows the nook icon, then the cyanoboot icon then turns off. Taking the sd card off or back on doesn't change anything.
Thanks for that info involving the bn. I am planning to go to a differerent bn location tomorrow to see if they will see. One thing though- do you remember if they plugged the device to check? Or do they just type in the serial directly? I am just a bit nervous about if they will try to boot it and see the cyanoboot icon and refusing the replacement.
Will update later. As always, thanks for the suggestions.
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Yeah I tried flashing your zip file, but now the response never even gets to reading the sd card- it just shows the nook icon, then the cyanoboot icon then turns off. Taking the sd card off or back on doesn't change anything.
Thanks for that info involving the bn. I am planning to go to a differerent bn location tomorrow to see if they will see. One thing though- do you remember if they plugged the device to check? Or do they just type in the serial directly? I am just a bit nervous about if they will try to boot it and see the cyanoboot icon and refusing the replacement.
Will update later. As always, thanks for the suggestions.
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They plugged it in. I would not take it in unless you can get that cyanoboot off.
Were you able to flash the stock recovery? If so, try booting 8 times in a row without the sd in, it may repair itself.
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They plugged it in. I would not take it in unless you can get that cyanoboot off.
Were you able to flash the stock recovery? If so, try booting 8 times in a row without the sd in, it may repair itself.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Unfortunately no, I wasn't able to flash the stock recovery. Before, the cwm boot screen from the sd came on, but now it doesn't even do that. Also the bad part about my issue is that the power button actually doesn't do anything- I have to plug it back in and out for it to show something. (nook icon-> cyanoboot screen, turning off)
I am wondering if opening the cover at this point is the only method left in order for me to get it to respond at all, perhaps disconnecting the battery or looking for wet terminals.. not too sure hwo to do this without making it visually shown that I tampered with it.
But I will also heed your advice and not take it in unless I can get rid of that screen. thanks
Or find a way to make sure it does not boot at all
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Or find a way to make sure it does not boot at all
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Yes, open it and disconnect the battery. Lol.
And if you use the right plastic tools, it may never show that you opened it.
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Alright, here is what happened. I actually ended up taking the front plastic cover off. The adhesives were a pain to deal with as I took the cover off, but I luckily had some of the tools as outlined in the teardown article you referred me to.
Surprisingly, removing that casing somehow enabled the nook to respond without shutting off.
Fearing that it might shut down again, I quickly used the stock cwm sd with the full recovery zip (400mb file) and reflashed it to factory settings. Now the cyanoboot screen was gone, although the nook screen froze at the 99% mark.
Following earlier advice, I went to a different barnes and nobles(not the one I called and got shot down from lol), and it was relatively okay- a rep actually wanted to see the receipt, but after pressing my case about warranty repairs not requiring it, they decided to take it anyways and replaced it with a BRAND NEW sealed nook hd+. Having the box helped the situation as well, since appraently it simplified the exchange process from their end.
all in all, I was able to get my nook replaced via warranty, thanks to the help here and the files available for flashing!
Thanks again for the help
Set the HD+ on a warm surface for awhile (top of PC, top of cable box, etc.) the heat may help the moisture evaporate.
That is really good news. Glad things worked out.
If your new device boots easily to an SD, you might want to keep stock recovery on there so it can reset itself if there is a problem. Go ahead and put CM10.1 on emmc, but stock recovery allows an automatic restore to stock ROM if things go wrong.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
Glad to know your issue is resolved. I also learned from you that B&N has better warranty policy than ASUS. I just sent my nexus 7 to ASUS due to a thin green line on the screen. On the RMA instructions they clearly said water damage is not covered. I had to spend about $10 to ship it back and it is still under repair (status shows repair in progress) after 3 days.
Yeah I might go ahead and keep the stock recovery there so I can indeed reflash if anything goes wrong- obviously it did occur.
Thanks again.
@View92612- actually I am not sure if nook covers it against liquid spills either- in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't. This was also the reason why I was thinking of opening the device up to make sure there wasn't a liquid spill sensor like many cellphones do nowdays.
Remember also that technically- in house exchange is ONLY valid for devices bought at B&N. It is clearly a store-to-store, situation-to-situation basis, as I have found out (see my earlier posts for proof).
Hope you get that ASUS properly repaired. I remember hearing not so good repair stories for asus and acer products due to repairs having to happen overseas.
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Hope you get that ASUS properly repaired. I remember hearing not so good repair stories for asus and acer products due to repairs having to happen overseas.
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Thanks for the reminder. My Nexus 7 just came back with a beautiful, brand new LCD with a part number label. Apparently the easiest way to fix a screen problem is to simply replace with a new one. It went to Grapevine, TX which is right next to the DFW airport. I hope my Nook HD+ would not have a similar issue later. But having a B&N store nearby(about 5 minutes from home) is quite helpful in such scenarios...
I rooted my wife's nook hd plus using leapinlar's method everything went fine it was rooted and everything worked like it should but I forgot to back up . The next morning I went into cynaboot recovery and started the backup it was going well but the wife said we needed to leave before it was done so we left it to finish while we left. When we got back was told cat slept on top of nook and now I can't get it to boot , charge , or anything. When I plug it up it goes green orange and then off and the screen never lights up. Don't know what is wrong is this nook completely gone or is there someway I can use sd card to boot and get back to life . Anybody's help would be greatly appreciated
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I rooted my wife's nook hd plus using leapinlar's method everything went fine it was rooted and everything worked like it should but I forgot to back up . The next morning I went into cynaboot recovery and started the backup it was going well but the wife said we needed to leave before it was done so we left it to finish while we left. When we got back was told cat slept on top of nook and now I can't get it to boot , charge , or anything. When I plug it up it goes green orange and then off and the screen never lights up. Don't know what is wrong is this nook completely gone or is there someway I can use sd card to boot and get back to life . Anybody's help would be greatly appreciated
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[problem fixed] turns out plug wasn't going in far enough so I took cover off the part that goes in nook and then plugged it up and amber light staying on is charging thank God:laugh:
Thank you for following up with the outcome! I wish more people would do this, just in case someone in the future has the same problem.