I rooted the nook color, everything worked fine. Rooted with 1.0.1 autonooter. Now, 2 months later i decide to unroot. I successfully wipe and restore my nook color with the 8x reboot interrupt, and it removed all traces of rooting. Now, however, it won't let me register my device - at all. the 3 finger reset ("hard reset") doesn't work, and i cant buy any books at all. The shop doesn't even work! I need help to register my device!
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Follow the steps here to restore to stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
RickOSidhe said:
Follow the steps here to restore to stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
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Does this take me through the registration process aswell?
After you restore to stock using those steps, you'll be able to re-register your device without any issues. I've re-registered my NC with BN many ... oh, so very, very many ... times.
Nook Color Won't Re-register
I found my Nook Color (NC) it would not re-register after executing an "erase and deregister" and then removing the root with the 8 power on/off sequences to get it to reinstall the original OS. The secret to get it to re-register after all the above steps, at least in my case, was to turn off my router encryption, and then it would register. After it registers, then 1) turn your router encryption back on, 2) turn off the Nook Color, 3)turn off the router wireless until you turn your NC back on, and 4) delete the unencrypted connection on the NC. Then 5) turn the wireless back on, let the NC fiind it, put in your wireless information, and you should be good to go with a secure connection.
I have found a great deal on a nook color but I need to know if I can deregister it so my daughter can buy from Barnes and Nobel using her own information. I plan on running a rom from an sd card, but keep the main B&N software for her. Thanks.
Really easy to deregister:
From the home screen, press the "N" button and then touch Settings. Then touch Device, then unregister and reset. I'm pretty sure that is the order. After it restores, it will walk you through the setup process again.
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Really easy to deregister:
From the home screen, press the "N" button and then touch Settings. Then touch Device, then unregister and reset. I'm pretty sure that is the order. After it restores, it will walk you through the setup process again.
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Nope that doesn't deregister it.
You need to have the original owner call BN and deregister it with them.
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That actually may work. It depends on what condition the prior owner left it in. If he didn't erase anything or password protect anything B&N wouldn't know the difference. If a password prompt pops up then he will need help from the prior owner or call B&N and do a lot of begging...
After alot of going back and forth between the 2, I went with the tablet. I feel once its unlocked (im sure it will be one day) it will be top notch. The processor and the mic did it for me.........Just looking at future capabilities once unlocked.
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After alot of going back and forth between the 2, I went with the tablet. I feel once its unlocked (im sure it will be one day) it will be top notch. The processor and the mic did it for me.........Just looking at future capabilities once unlocked.
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It has been already rooted. Unlocked? The jury is still out so don't buy it if you will be unhappy if they never beat the locked bootloader....
If you already have a Nook why don't you make a Nandroid Backup and just overwrite the new Nooks NAND with it?
Should work in theory, no?
EDIT: As for waiting for a Nook Tablet Unlock, if you wanted that you might have been better off with the Kindle Fire and it's open bootloader.
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.
leapinlar said:
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.
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gomavs123 said:
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
gomavs123 said:
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.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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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.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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...