Hi all,
I had the issue where I prepared the microSD card, but the HD+ wouldn't boot into ClockWorkMod recovery from it.
I solved the problem by holding down the "volume up" key during the boot.
I suspect a lot of people may be running into the same problem, as there are a lot of complaints about the device not booting from the card. Maybe the "volume up" instruction could be added to the first post of the CM10 dev thread?
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I have a rooted Nook with Clockwork Recovery Installed. Rooted on 1.1
I had it dual booting between rooted 1.1 and the 0.5.9 Nookie.
Today I changed the Nookie image to brianf(sp?) custom image by changing the copy2emmc.sh script to copy to the respective dualboot partitions (9 and 10).
It booted up on the custom image fine. I played around with it for a while, I tried to figure out which partition the Kernel was on so I can copy an overclock kernel by mounting and unmounting each mmc0 partition. I didn't find it, so I figure I just reboot to test again to make sure I can dual boot.
The screen never came up and appears to stay on a black screen not showing signs of booting up.
adb devices show no devices
I've tried all power key combinations to see if a recovery screen shows up and no luck ( Power +n , Power + Both Vol, Power + Vol Up, Power + Vol Down, Power + All Buttons).
The only sign I have of life is with USB plugged into PC, if I keep holding down the Power button. I will briefly see "Unknow Device" of a "OMAP" device.
Any hints on how to bring this back from the dead?
Thanks.
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Also I've tried all of the above with microsd inserted and without.
You may find some help in this thread .... Cheers
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sounds like you deleted something that you shouldnt have . its cool it happens. there are multiple ways to fix this.
here are some threads you should check out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919353
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=938200
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
it will be a lot of reading but you will get there. remember the NC is nearly impossible to brick there is always a way to fix it!
I've found that powering down and on (hard reboots) 8 times until you see the big "N" seems to restore to stock and fix most issues every time. There's another post on restoring to stock that also works.
damthman said:
sounds like you deleted something that you shouldnt have . its cool it happens. there are multiple ways to fix this.
here are some threads you should check out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919353
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Thanks. It looked like I messed up the boot partition. Even with CWR to reflash the Nook to Stock using the restore to stock thread, the Nook was not booting up. I just didn't know what would restore a boot partition.
So I looked at your pointer, so the boot img. Burned a nookie image to dd that partition back. It booted right up after a reboot.
Thanks for the pointer.
my NC is rooted and upgrade to 1.01, it has worked fine untill today I turn it off, and try to turn on again, it stuck at boot, at "touch the future of reading"
I didn't install any software recently, so I have no idea what happen.......
Bootable ClockworkMod Recovery image (Burn to your SDCard with Winimage/software):
http://legacyschool.us.to/nookdev/clockwork/clockwork_1gb-0.4.tar.gz
Rooted 1.01 update (.zip, flash with CWR after wiping data/cache/system):
http://www.etoile-laconnex.com/nook-complete-restore-1.0.1.zip
Once that's set on your memory card, insert into the Nook Color and press and hold the "n" home button while pressing the power button on...Then reset your nook to stock 1.01 root.
thx it's back. but still don't know what cause it like that, I just hope it won't happen again.
maybe I should upgrade to 1.10 now.
Ok, so I just got a nook and went through the steps of rooting it by following this tutorial here: http://www.the-ebook-reader.com/nook-color-cm7.html which eventually led me to here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957. I then tried to put gapps on my nook so I could get android market but I can't get the nook to boot into recovery mode! I started searching through alot of forums and noticed many people saying you need to have ClockworkMod Recovery which I thought I already had. But in my rom manager it says "You mush have the CLockworkMod Recovery installed to flash and restore ROMs!" So apparently I can't go into recovery mode because I don't have it?? I don't know how to install it either because all the tutorials start out with a stock nook and my nook already has gingerbread on it. I'm extremely cautious to try anything because this is my first time rooting. What do I do????
Well, I figured out how to install Clockwork through the rom manager and I just noticed an update in the bottom bar. It just gave me the option to add google apps and it's downloading as I type this. Confused about recovery mode and the little penguin now.
MusicaFreak23 said:
Confused about recovery mode and the little penguin now.
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Idk if you figured this out yet but in case you didn't, what you were supposed to do is download the latest gapps which is 200110613 if your using latest cm7. Then put that zip in the boot partition of your sd card. Put the sd card back into your nook and boot into recovery by holding down the N and power buttons. When the loading screen appears you release the buttons. It then will install gapps to the sd card and power down when its done.
Tip: If you cant time the release of N and power to get gapps installed. Just let cm7 load up then hold power select reboot then select recovery.
dabiddabird said:
Idk if you figured this out yet but in case you didn't, what you were supposed to do is download the latest gapps which is 200110613 if your using latest cm7. Then put that zip in the boot partition of your sd card. Put the sd card back into your nook and boot into recovery by holding down the N and power buttons. When the loading screen appears you release the buttons. It then will install gapps to the sd card and power down when its done.
Tip: If you cant time the release of N and power to get gapps installed. Just let cm7 load up then hold power select reboot then select recovery.
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What I ended up doing actually is rerooting it to run nightlies instead of the stable version 7.0.3. It rebooted into recovery mode and worked like a charm.
When am I supposed to see the option to Boot to Recovery? I have tried timing holding N and power and that didn't work. I tried holding the N till script appeared but only option ended up booting to B&N Nook Color.
How do I forec a Recovery boot?
Having trouble doing anything with my nook hd+, i have it running on cm 10.2. the problem is that after i tried updating twrp from 2.6.xx to 2.7 with the flashify app it i rebooted it to try it out but instead of booting it got stuck in a boot loop. it powers on for about 3 secs and cuts back off and continues doing this until i hold down the power button and turn it off. i have tried everything i could think of but nothing works!! if anyone could help that would be great. ps im new to most of this
parkerchad82 said:
Having trouble doing anything with my nook hd+, i have it running on cm 10.2. the problem is that after i tried updating twrp from 2.6.xx to 2.7 with the flashify app it i rebooted it to try it out but instead of booting it got stuck in a boot loop. it powers on for about 3 secs and cuts back off and continues doing this until i hold down the power button and turn it off. i have tried everything i could think of but nothing works!! if anyone could help that would be great. ps im new to most of this
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Holding power + home doesn't bring up recovery either?
You'd then need to adb flash the recovery or make an sdcard bootable and put the sdcard recovery on there which would then be started by the device and then you can fix from there. Go with the one you have already available first.
sandsofmyst said:
Holding power + home doesn't bring up recovery either?
You'd then need to adb flash the recovery or make an sdcard bootable and put the sdcard recovery on there which would then be started by the device and then you can fix from there. Go with the one you have already available first.
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no ive tried holding power + home but all it does is turn off the nook and i have tried using a bootable sd card but the nook doesnt seem to want to boot up on that either. As of using adb i have tried to use it but it will not connect to the device for me to flash anything to it. It may be to my lack of experience using adb or fastboot.
parkerchad82 said:
no ive tried holding power + home but all it does is turn off the nook...
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You are holding power too long. Hold power and n together for a few seconds releasing power first followed by releasing n. It should boot to recovery (either stock or CWM).
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leapinlar said:
You are holding power too long. Hold power and n together for a few seconds releasing power first followed by releasing n. It should boot to recovery (either stock or CWM).
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i have tried all sorts of button combinations including like you just said. the nook powers on for maybe 3 secs shows the word "nook" and cuts back off not enough time to do anything with
parkerchad82 said:
i have tried all sorts of button combinations including like you just said. the nook powers on for maybe 3 secs shows the word "nook" and cuts back off not enough time to do anything with
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Your emmc is messed up. I suggest you go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread and make a new bootable CWM SD per item 1a and then use that to install a plain stock zip from item 6. That should repair the files on emmc and you can start over with CM11.
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If you mess up the internal emmc recovery, your nook will behave exactly as described.
(trust me, I've been there).
The cure is to (re)flash a working recovery from a sdcard recovery.
Some people complain that it's hard to get their device to boot from sdcard.
Sometimes it helps to plug in your nook to entice it to boot from sd.
I've been using CM11 for quite some time now on my 16gb HD+. I've updated the nightly several times before. The other night I downloaded & installed the latest nightly. ( I think it was cm-11-20140512 from cyanogenmod )
Now I can't get past the loading. When I put in the SD card with the recovery on it, it sits there and hangs on "Cyanoboot universal bootloader". When I don't have the SD card in, it sits there and hangs saying "Nook".
Any suggestions on how to fix this? Is there a way to completely reset it or something?
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I've been using CM11 for quite some time now on my 16gb HD+. I've updated the nightly several times before. The other night I downloaded & installed the latest nightly. ( I think it was cm-11-20140512 from cyanogenmod )
Now I can't get past the loading. When I put in the SD card with the recovery on it, it sits there and hangs on "Cyanoboot universal bootloader". When I don't have the SD card in, it sits there and hangs saying "Nook".
Any suggestions on how to fix this? Is there a way to completely reset it or something?
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I had trouble getting a couple of the recent nightly updates to boot, but the most recent nightly update works okay. I had to reinstall a good build from recovery mode, but I have recovery installed on my Nook instead of on the SD card.
Erm... that doesn't really help me since I can't get it to boot into recovery.
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Erm... that doesn't really help me since I can't get it to boot into recovery.
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Did you try booting into emmc recovery by using the key combination (power + n)?
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leapinlar said:
Did you try booting into emmc recovery by using the key combination (power + n)?
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Yes, I have. It hangs at the screen that I mentioned before.
When I hold the power button down on the hang it turns the nook off, so I can't "hold the power button down + n, see the CM logo, release power, and hold it again" like it says on how-to guide.
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Yes, I have. It hangs at the screen that I mentioned before.
When I hold the power button down on the hang it turns the nook off, so I can't "hold the power button down + n, see the CM logo, release power, and hold it again" like it says on how-to guide.
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It is sounding like you have a bricked emmc. A bricked emmc will boot neither emmc or an ordinary bootable SD since even that needs some of emmc working. Search for verygreen's noemmc posts and see if you can get it working with his modified files.
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