Hi all.
In order to save a buck, I opted to purchase a bricked Nook Color from the world's biggest flea market. According to the previous owner, the boot partition was accidentally formatted while attempting to install CM7. I believe the firmware was 1.4.3. Now it won't boot at all, doesn't power on without an SD, and can't get into CWM.
Exact symptoms:
I power on my fully charged Nook (with bootable CWM sd inserted) and see a half-black, half-white screen. The screen goes dark, then is replaced with a solid black screen.
I've been searching desperately for a solution, but most forums are outdated with dead links. I'd appreciate any help I can get, and I thank you guys in advance.
FYI--I'm a noob, so please be kind.
You may be in a recovery bootloop. Look in my tips thread linked in my signature to learn what that is and for possible solutions to fix it. You may also have messed up your partitions on emmc. Also look at my partition repair thread also linked in my signature.
leapinlar said:
You may be in a recovery bootloop. Look in my tips thread linked in my signature to learn what that is and for possible solutions to fix it. You may also have messed up your partitions on emmc. Also look at my partition repair thread also linked in my signature.
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No dice. Tried your bootable CWM and I'm getting the same symptoms. Is it a gonner?
Bross41 said:
No dice. Tried your bootable CWM and I'm getting the same symptoms. Is it a gonner?
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Did you try the 8 failed boot procedure I talked about in my thread?
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Did you try the 8 failed boot procedure I talked about in my thread?
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Been trying all sorts of things, including the 8 failed boot procedure. No luck. All I get is that damned blank screen. I've also tried several other bootable CW cards and no result. Is bricking a NC really possible?
I sincerely thank you for trying to help.
It is possible to have a hardware failure that will brick the device. That half black and half white screen is not a good sign. And the fact that it won't turn on without an SD is also not good.
There is more you can try, like use of adb and your USB cable hooked to your PC, but it does not sound good. If you want to try that just search the nook color forum for adb.
Another thread mentioned that B&N has an out of warranty trade in program to get brand new nook colors for busted nook colors for like $80. You might try that.
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Ok so I have totally messed my brand new device, this is second day I have had it. I got it yesterday and first thing I did was install DeeperBlues HC v4 on my eMMC. It was easy. I had to use Autonooter first. I was on 1.0.1. Well after playing with it all night. I started to not like the functioning of apps on the platform. They were great but was in my opinion, no greater than when it was just rooted. So I decided to bring it back to stock. I accidently placed wrong sd card in it, the one with Autonooter on it. Now when it boots up it says Loading.... then I get the word ANDROID in lower left had side of screen in landscape. I am a noob when it comes to this. Now I flash and mess with my phones rom and themes and kernels all the time kind of a junkie, but this is no walk in the park.
Please can someone help me.
MentalDragon said:
Ok so I have totally messed my brand new device, this is second day I have had it. I got it yesterday and first thing I did was install DeeperBlues HC v4 on my eMMC. It was easy. I had to use Autonooter first. I was on 1.0.1. Well after playing with it all night. I started to not like the functioning of apps on the platform. They were great but was in my opinion, no greater than when it was just rooted. So I decided to bring it back to stock. I accidently placed wrong sd card in it, the one with Autonooter on it. Now when it boots up it says Loading.... then I get the word ANDROID in lower left had side of screen in landscape. I am a noob when it comes to this. Now I flash and mess with my phones rom and themes and kernels all the time kind of a junkie, but this is no walk in the park.
Please can someone help me.
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I think you rooted your Nook which could be a fine thing. If that's not what you want, getting it back to stock is very easy.
Here's a link: http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
The tricky part is to get the timing right so that you get the 8 failed boots (that took me a while). If it looks like it's about to boot up up, hold down the power button till it goes off (at least I think that's what I did). If you have adb installed (or install it) you can get around that.
BarryR1 said:
I think you rooted your Nook which could be a fine thing. If that's not what you want, getting it back to stock is very easy.
Here's a link: http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
The tricky part is to get the timing right so that you get the 8 failed boots (that took me a while). If it looks like it's about to boot up up, hold down the power button till it goes off (at least I think that's what I did). If you have adb installed (or install it) you can get around that.
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Yeah, but that's not going to work, he installed HC on the internal eMMC the first day he owned it.........
Probably the fix is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=945838
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Yeah, but that's not going to work, he installed HC on the internal eMMC the first day he owned it.........
Probably the fix is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=945838
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Is this going to help me. My original firmware was 1.0.1.
Just grab the CWR 1.1 Recovery image from the development forum. Burn that onto an SD Card and reboot. Wipe data boot system cache and flash. done.
Find rootpack in dev section, write that to sd card, add the flashable restore to stock zip from samuelhalffs restore to stock thread in the dev section to your sdcard, boot to sdcard with the rootpack on it, flash the restore to stock zip after formatting system and data. Wala, fixed! All info can be found in my dummies guide to my nook won't boot a few threads down.
Thank you Thank you Thank you. This worked. I now have my Nook back. Thanks.
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Thank you Thank you Thank you. This worked. I now have my Nook back. Thanks.
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Ok still need help. I seem to have installed CWR but now i am watching the Nook Color boot animation looping over and over. I tried to reboot but it is still looping. What do I do again? Do I reinstall sd card? And reflash the rom?
khaytsus said:
Yeah, but that's not going to work, he installed HC on the internal eMMC the first day he owned it.........
Probably the fix is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=945838
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Oops. My bad. Sorry for the misinformation.
MentalDragon said:
Ok still need help. I seem to have installed CWR but now i am watching the Nook Color boot animation looping over and over. I tried to reboot but it is still looping. What do I do again? Do I reinstall sd card? And reflash the rom?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Try this Thread, "Dummies Guide to Fixing 'My Nook Won't Boot'""
This should work and get you back to stock so you can start all over.
So I followed the guide found here
androidtablets.net/forum/nook/3960-nc-news-nook-color-software-update-1-0-1-a-2.html#post24111
I followed the instructions but the nook bootup menu would just loop and loop and loop so I shut it off
I left on the nook color bootup animation loop for like 5 minutes before turning it off. I assume it installed everything fine but I'm freakin out.
Can I just unplug my microsd card and boot it up all fine?
You could update to the stock 1.1 firmware which will overwrite your root, register etc the device and use autonooter 3.0 found here to re-root it.
Good luck
I want to revert it but the usb charger isn't doing crap. It's just sitting there now not charging over 15%. The nook is still rotating the animation bootup logo and won't charge. I have no way of reverting it now!!
Sure you do. Restore to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Read through the thread WELL. Follow the steps in the first post EXACTLY
muzzy996 said:
Sure you do. Restore to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Read through the thread WELL. Follow the steps in the first post EXACTLY
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Agree'd you just need to get yourself a CWR sd card, and boot it up with the right files to install. Read everything on thread and the other thread it refers too. you will be fine, Nooks are 99% unbrickable.
muzzy996 said:
Sure you do. Restore to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Read through the thread WELL. Follow the steps in the first post EXACTLY
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I had almost the same issue as you. Bootlooping. I was freaking out to. But follow this and you will be fine.
Bootlooping is great, because it still boots. It's worse when the screen does nothing.
muzzy996 said:
Sure you do. Restore to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
Read through the thread WELL. Follow the steps in the first post EXACTLY
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Alright man, got a new problem. Black screen. Now I understand this is a bootstrap problem but all those files that are listed in your link to unbrick are all linux files. I'm not at all familiar with linux. VERY familiar with windows. Please get back to me!!
kgonepostl said:
Alright man, got a new problem. Black screen. Now I understand this is a bootstrap problem but all those files that are listed in your link to unbrick are all linux files. I'm not at all familiar with linux. VERY familiar with windows. Please get back to me!!
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what you do you mean they are linux file? Becuase they are Tar? and Gz. those are just standards for Compression, just git Winrar. or 7zip and you can uncompress them.
^^^ What he said.
I can tell you with 100% certainty that if youre bootlooping then going through a full restore described in that thread will work. I myself went through this three days ago and I use windows on my PC not Linux.
Not trying to be an a__ here, its just that there is no need for us to dilute these forums with the same information over and over.
You mentioned earlier the charge level being 15% and not charging, how did you know the charge level?
Is it possible now that your battery is fully depleted? Is it safe to assume youre using the stock nook color charger and cable (silly question perhaps but it does make a difference, the nook needs more power than a PC's USB port can provide if the nook is on...)?
Sent from my nook color using Tapatalk
NookColor Version 1.2
About 2ish months ago I bought a nook color for my significant other, but I was having problems getting sideloaded books to work right on it so I decided to try and root it. I'm not extremely tech savvy, but can usually do something like this if I have directions.I rooted with manualnooter-4-6-16 The root went well and it was working fine for a couple days until dummy me started messing with it, don't know what it was that "bricked" it but I had updated the flash player then was in the rom manager and hit the backup button. The keyboard was acting funny so I rebooted it, it got to the screen that says Nook Color with the little android dude in the bottom right (nook color devs) and that screen just kept replaying itself except it would stop at the first O in Color and start over. I tried doing some research and followed a couple tutorials on how to return the nook to stock, none has been successful. The first one I followed was video tutorial on youtube to return it to stock 1.0.1, when it asked me to format the data I got and error format data failed..I just skipped that step and moved on. It booted and still showed me the nook color devs screen and once it completely booted showed a "How do you want to finish this action?" With only Home and Softkeys as a choice, I hit home and all it was was a black screen with a bunch of errors. so I tried a different tutorial, the next one I tried was to return it to 1.2 I followed the instructions, it again gave me a error cannot format data, I ignored it..it booted to the nook devs screen and just kept playing over again. I'm lost on what to do, I've searched and searched.
If it matters I've been using a 16gb micro sd because thats all I have, and was using the 2gb clockwork recovery image. I just want it returned to stock, and can't for the life of me figure out how.
Please someone explain to me in the most dumbed down way how to fix this darned thing.
Don't know how serious "brick" it was on your definition but let say on scale of 10, yr NC is bricked level 9 . Still, no need to panic
1. Get the uSD card (2GB is enough)
2. make it flashable with CwM Recovery (ClockworkMod Recovery) either v3.0.2.8 or v3.2.0.1
3. hunt for "re-partition/re-format" thread, read through. I'll update the link if I find it, can't remember where on top of my head now.
4. perform the repartition/reformat back to original v1.2 NOOK
5. hunt for "restore to NOOK for v1.2". Again, I'll update the link later
6. flash it
7. keep all your fingers crossed
Will try that, thank you..Hope it works..seriously cant afford to spend another 250 dollars to replace it
Edit: Fixed The 8 interrupted boots seemed to have fixed it, thanks for your help!
Scintie said:
Will try that, thank you..Hope it works..seriously cant afford to spend another 250 dollars to replace it
Edit: Fixed The 8 interrupted boots seemed to have fixed it, thanks for your help!
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Glad to hear that!!!!
Hi,
My nook color seem to be found in an impossible loop boot. I tried many thing like re-installing OS, Bootable Cyanogenmod on SD Card but I can't pass the boot. I currently have Clockworkmod V. 3.0.0.6 and I tried to re-install the cyanogen OS but it ain't working. I know that at a point I had a boot problem and tried the reset to factory option in Clockworkmod but I think this was not a good idea. If anyone out there may think to have an idea to unbrick my nook just bring it on I'm willing to try anything.
Thanks!
mathieu660 said:
Hi,
My nook color seem to be found in an impossible loop boot. I tried many thing like re-installing OS, Bootable Cyanogenmod on SD Card but I can't pass the boot. I currently have Clockworkmod V. 3.0.0.6 and I tried to re-install the cyanogen OS but it ain't working. I know that at a point I had a boot problem and tried the reset to factory option in Clockworkmod but I think this was not a good idea. If anyone out there may think to have an idea to unbrick my nook just bring it on I'm willing to try anything.
Thanks!
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For one thing that is too old of CWM. You should have version 3.2.0.1 or newer. If you go to my tips thread linked in my signature, you will find a newer version. Plus if you read my item A8 you will see you are in a recovery bootloop. I have instructions there how to get out of it.
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For one thing that is too old of CWM. You should have version 3.2.0.1 or newer. If you go to my tips thread linked in my signature, you will find a newer version. Plus if you read my item A8 you will see you are in a recovery bootloop. I have instructions there how to get out of it.
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Hi Leapinlar,
Section A10 of your tips and tricks did it ! Thanks for your post
By the way now I'm booting to your CWM in the bootable SD Card right ? Now I have to re-install CWM right ?
Hi,
So I did some troubleshooting it seems that there are 2 CWM on my nook now. The old one that is broken and the new one that is loaded with the SD card. The new one is able to lunch CyanogenMod on the device's ROM. Hmm ... do I need to apply your partition fix ?
mathieu660 said:
Hi,
So I did some troubleshooting it seems that there are 2 CWM on my nook now. The old one that is broken and the new one that is loaded with the SD card. The new one is able to lunch CyanogenMod on the device's ROM. Hmm ... do I need to apply your partition fix ?
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No you do not need my partition fix. The two versions are expected. The newer one is on the new SD you just made and the older one is on emmc (internal memory). The easiest way to get a newer version internally is to use Rom Manager, an app that comes with CM7. Just go to the app drawer and start it. There is an option in the app to update CWM. It will replace the old one you have on emmc with version 3.2.0.1 which is good enough.
Hi,
So everything seem to work with cyanogen mod now. But I have one big problem now. It seems that if I unplug my nook from the wall charger it shutdown like if my battery were dead. I looked the battery stats and it's at 100 %. I also opened the nook and looked the voltage with an voltmeter and it's OK, I even did a current test with a load and everything seem great. Anyone here had a similar problem ?
Thanks, your help is very welcome this nook is driving me nuts I am about to crash it to the ground
Shuts down after how long?
mathieu660 said:
Hi,
So everything seem to work with cyanogen mod now. But I have one big problem now. It seems that if I unplug my nook from the wall charger it shutdown like if my battery were dead. I looked the battery stats and it's at 100 %. I also opened the nook and looked the voltage with an voltmeter and it's OK, I even did a current test with a load and everything seem great. Anyone here had a similar problem ?
Thanks, your help is very welcome this nook is driving me nuts I am about to crash it to the ground
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What version of CM have you installed? Does your Nook shut down immediately after unplugging, or after some period of disuse? If the latter, perhaps this is the "screen of death" issue wherein the Nook doesn't wake up after sleeping. See leapinlar's excellent user tips thread for details.
Hello I've had a Nook HD+ working since August beautifully, I thought to get one for my sister and picked one up over the weekend.
Today I decided make it like mine, ie take off the B&N interface and try for a most vanilla like jelly Bean.
These are the instructions I followed last time....
"1. Download leapinlar's NookHDplus-bootable-CWM-6028-for-stock-4GB-rev4-(05.15.13).zip
2. Extract the zip above and burn the img to a 4GB or larger microSD card
3. After burning, copy cm-10.1-20130512-UNOFFICIAL-ovation-emmc.zip and gapps-20130301-jb-signed.zip back to the microSD card
4. Place the microSD card back to the Nook HD+ and boot it
5. Do a backup for the stock ROM
6. After backup is done, do data wipe/factory reset
7. Flash the cm-10.1-20130512-UNOFFICIAL-ovation-emmc.zip and gapps-20130301-jb-signed.zip"
I made a mistake this time around, I used cm-10.2-20131031-UNOFFICIAL-ovation-sdcard.zip by accident instead of the EMMC version. Now when I power the unit on, with no SD card it keep rebooting at the Nook screen. With a now corrected SD card it gets stuck at the cyanoboot screen, it dims after a minute but then still just stuck there.
How do I go about fixing this? Thank you in Advance....
Ok so I rebuilt the SD card and it looks like it's kinda back to normal. I did a wipe and then wrote....
cwm-recovery-ovation-3.zip
cm-10.2-20131031-UNOFFICIAL-ovation-emmc.zip
gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip
Rebooted and now it gets stuck at that spinning logo, the logo never goes to the correct aspect ration. Screw it I'm done for today.
Tomorrow I'll try doing a restore to factory defaults and try the same steps again, if it should fail again, then I'll restore, wipe, and try the exact same files I used on mine. Unless someone has a better guide/method to use....
Any insight would be appreciated. Thank you!
You need to get back to pure stock so that everything can be done over. Go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and use your already burned CWM SD to flash a plain stock ROM from item 6. Also do a factory wipe with it.
Then start over, but use the dummies guide for CM10.1.
Edit: I did not see your second post when I wrote this. But I think the advice still holds.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app
OK go tit all settle! I used your stock image, booted up to normal, then went back, wiped, and did the usual files. The latest file cm-10.2-20131031-UNOFFICIAL-ovation-emmc Gave me keyboard errors, so I went back to the old file I used previously on mine, cm-10.1-20130615-UNOFFICIAL-ovation-emmc, and everything seems perfect.
Thank you for your help! You are a man among men!
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You need to get back to pure stock so that everything can be done over. Go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and use your already burned CWM SD to flash a plain stock ROM from item 6. Also do a factory wipe with it.
Then start over, but use the dummies guide for CM10.1.
Edit: I did not see your second post when I wrote this. But I think the advice still holds.
Sent from my BN NookHD+ using XDA Premium HD app
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I'm trying to follow your method of going back to stock on emmc, but I can't get my nook into recovery. I have re-made my SD card multiple times and the times my HD+ boots off the sd card (mine is one of those thats hit or miss), it will stay stuck on the Cyanoboot screen. If I can't get into recovery somehow, I'm hosed. Any ideas? I want to avoid having to bring it in for 1 year warranty replacement.
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I'm trying to follow your method of going back to stock on emmc, but I can't get my nook into recovery. I have re-made my SD card multiple times and the times my HD+ boots off the sd card (mine is one of those thats hit or miss), it will stay stuck on the Cyanoboot screen. If I can't get into recovery somehow, I'm hosed. Any ideas? I want to avoid having to bring it in for 1 year warranty replacement.
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Sounds similar to my situation. Can't get the tab into recovery.
chr0 said:
Sounds similar to my situation. Can't get the tab into recovery.
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i find it hard to believe we are both just screwed. Maybe I'll try and find a different sd card and give that a try. Ugh. This is most bogus.
Hello everybody,
I have even worse problem with cyanoboot - I've bought used NOOK HD+ after someone tried to install cyanogenmod on it, and except holding cyanoboot at screen with an SD card (that I've prepared accordingly leapinlar's page), it has next issues:
1) there is absolutely no response, when I try to turn it on without an SD card;
2) when the SD was untouched by me, it had some other cyanoboot installed on it but with this version nothing in the cyanoboot menu worked: there was a menu and errors in the console every time I've done everything. But, at least, it loaded.
And I have no SD card bigger than 1 GB.
And, question ahead - is it some easy way to figure out whether my B&N is bricked?
Regards
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i find it hard to believe we are both just screwed. Maybe I'll try and find a different sd card and give that a try. Ugh. This is most bogus.
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Good luck to you, sir.
Do you mean you are going to try another SD card by making it bootable with CWM? Or are you going to try verygreen's no-emmc build and run your tab directly off the SD? Because I have tried more than a few SD cards for the former to no effect.
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Good luck to you, sir.
Do you mean you are going to try another SD card by making it bootable with CWM? Or are you going to try verygreen's no-emmc build and run your tab directly off the SD? Because I have tried more than a few SD cards for the former to no effect.
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I cried uncle and got it swapped out for a refurb. Hope you find a fix, this problem is a little nightmare, first time I've never been able to save a device.
cabbieBot said:
I cried uncle and got it swapped out for a refurb. Hope you find a fix, this problem is a little nightmare, first time I've never been able to save a device.
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Glad you got it exchanged. Nook, after the drop in prices has been extremely good value for money.
I'm in Afghanistan, so an exchange is not happening until my next R&R. I'll probably be able to save enough for a Note 10.1 or Nexus 10 atleast by then.