[HELP] Nook HD+ will not boot from EMMC or SD card - Nook HD, HD+ Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys,
So I've had my nook HD+ for a few months and have been running various roms on it for a while. Most recently I've had the latest Slimbean rom on it for about a week, Yesterday I went to use it after it had been charging all night and found it to be off. When I turn it on, it will just sit at the initial nook screen or get to the cyanoboot splash screen and just sit. I cannot boot into EMMC TWRP as it does the same thing. When I try to boot TWRP from an SD card it will get to the TWRP splash screen and just sit there without actually getting into the recovery, and if I try to boot a CWM SD card it will just sit at the cyanoboot splash screen. Is there something I can do to fix it or is my device bricked? And if it is bricked is there any way I could go about getting it replaced with the warranty as it currently and obviously has a custom rom on it.
Thanks for any help you can give me guys.

alk195 said:
Hey guys,
So I've had my nook HD+ for a few months and have been running various roms on it for a while. Most recently I've had the latest Slimbean rom on it for about a week, Yesterday I went to use it after it had been charging all night and found it to be off. When I turn it on, it will just sit at the initial nook screen or get to the cyanoboot splash screen and just sit. I cannot boot into EMMC TWRP as it does the same thing. When I try to boot TWRP from an SD card it will get to the TWRP splash screen and just sit there without actually getting into the recovery, and if I try to boot a CWM SD card it will just sit at the cyanoboot splash screen. Is there something I can do to fix it or is my device bricked? And if it is bricked is there any way I could go about getting it replaced with the warranty as it currently and obviously has a custom rom on it.
Thanks for any help you can give me guys.
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Did you try to boot to your internal TWRP but holding the n key and power key together from a power off situation? Be sure to release the power key after a few seconds so that it does not power itself back off.
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leapinlar said:
Did you try to boot to your internal TWRP but holding the n key and power key together from a power off situation? Be sure to release the power key after a few seconds so that it does not power itself back off.
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Yeah I've tried that, it acts the same as it would if I hadn't held the n button and booted.

alk195 said:
Yeah I've tried that, it acts the same as it would if I hadn't held the n button and booted.
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n or n + power?
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leapinlar said:
n or n + power?
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I've tried n+power and released the power button after a few seconds before it turns off

alk195 said:
I've tried n+power and released the power button after a few seconds before it turns off
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The bootable SDs, were they new or had they worked previously?
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leapinlar said:
The bootable SDs, were they new or had they worked previously?
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I had one that I had used previously that I had written over and used for other things, I remade the bootable SD on that one and it didn't work. I also tried making 2 other bootable SDs following both methods (new and old) of the guide in this thread. My HD+ has never had a problem booting from bootable SDs before this happened, aside from taking a few reboots to actually get it to boot which I have read is common.

alk195 said:
I had one that I had used previously that I had written over and used for other things, I remade the bootable SD on that one and it didn't work. I also tried making 2 other bootable SDs following both methods (new and old) of the guide in this thread. My HD+ has never had a problem booting from bootable SDs before this happened, aside from taking a few reboots to actually get it to boot which I have read is common.
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Since you have a custom ROM and a custom recovery on internal, it is hard to tell if the SDs are booting or not. Both cases look the same on the screen. I would bet they are not booting and it is always trying to boot to internal.
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leapinlar said:
Since you have a custom ROM and a custom recovery on internal, it is hard to tell if the SDs are booting or not. Both cases look the same on the screen. I would bet they are not booting and it is always trying to boot to internal.
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Well I can tell that the bootable TWRP SD card is at least trying to boot, as by just turning on the nook with that card in and not pressing the n button or anything will get it to the TWRP splash screen before it gets to the actual usable recovery screen. If i try to boot into the internal TWRP via n+power, it will either sit at the nook screen or the cyanoboot screen. I don't know if the CWM SD card that I tried was not working at all or just locking up on its own SD cyanoboot screen. Does that help at all?

alk195 said:
Well I can tell that the bootable TWRP SD card is at least trying to boot, as by just turning on the nook with that card in and not pressing the n button or anything will get it to the TWRP splash screen before it gets to the actual usable recovery screen. If i try to boot into the internal TWRP via n+power, it will either sit at the nook screen or the cyanoboot screen. I don't know if the CWM SD card that I tried was not working at all or just locking up on its own SD cyanoboot screen. Does that help at all?
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I don't use TWRP so I don't know much about it. But both TWRP and CWM expect a working /cache partition on emmc. So that may be the issue. But unfortunately since you replaced stock recovery with TWRP, it cannot repair itself with the 8 failed boot procedure. You have to get an SD to boot to fix anything.
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leapinlar said:
I don't use TWRP so I don't know much about it. But both TWRP and CWM expect a working /cache partition on emmc. So that may be the issue. But unfortunately since you replaced stock recovery with TWRP, it cannot repair itself with the 8 failed boot procedure. You have to get an SD to boot to fix anything.
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Alright, so I finally got a working CWM SD card using the img from this thread. Now when I boot into it it says:
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't mount cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
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Then when I try to choose a zip from the sd card to flash stock recovery, it says E:Can't mount /sdcard/
Any ideas? Thanks so much for the help by the way!

alk195 said:
Alright, so I finally got a working CWM SD card using the img from this thread. Now when I boot into it it says:
Then when I try to choose a zip from the sd card to flash stock recovery, it says E:Can't mount /sdcard/
Any ideas? Thanks so much for the help by the way!
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Yes the issue is that CWM is for installing CM to SD. That one will not find /sdcard because it is emulated and only is available after the ROM is installed.
You need to get a CWM working that is meant for installing things to emmc.
And those can't find /cache messages are worrisome.
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leapinlar said:
Yes the issue is that CWM is for installing CM to SD. That one will not find /sdcard because it is emulated and only is available after the ROM is installed.
You need to get a CWM working that is meant for installing things to emmc.
And those can't find /cache messages are worrisome.
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Are there any other CWM bootable SDs that I could try?

alk195 said:
Are there any other CWM bootable SDs that I could try?
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You said you tried all of mine from my HD/HD+ CWM thread. Did you try my TWRP ones from that thread? The only other one I know is verygreen's early 2.1 from his emmc thread.
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leapinlar said:
You said you tried all of mine from my HD/HD+ CWM thread. Did you try my TWRP ones from that thread? The only other one I know is verygreen's early 2.1 from his emmc thread.
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Yeah I've tried the TWRPs from your thread, I got verygreen's one from this page to boot with his alternate uImage further down the page. In there is says that I can push the stock recovery to the emulated SD card via ADB and install it from there. Problem is that I can't get the adb drivers to install while in CWM. Any thoughts?

alk195 said:
Yeah I've tried the TWRPs from your thread, I got verygreen's one from this page to boot with his alternate uImage further down the page. In there is says that I can push the stock recovery to the emulated SD card via ADB and install it from there. Problem is that I can't get the adb drivers to install while in CWM. Any thoughts?
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No that is still one for an SD install. I meant the one on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2263553
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leapinlar said:
No that is still one for an SD install. I meant the one on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2263553
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That one hangs at the cyanoboot screen as well.

alk195 said:
That one hangs at the cyanoboot screen as well.
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I think your emmc is borked, not allowing those SDs made for emmc installs to boot. Those /cache errors are telling. And since you have other than stock on there and it partially boots showing that, I think you are stuck.
I think your only recourse is to put the no-emmc version on SD and run it that way. Go to the verygreen thread just before the last one I pointed to and try getting a ROM to run on it. I know nothing about that so if you have trouble, ask in that thread.
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Were you running a trim enabled kernel/rom? Do you know if you had the faulty emmc chip?

jpisini said:
Were you running a trim enabled kernel/rom? Do you know if you had the faulty emmc chip?
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I do have the faulty chip, although its the rev6 version. I have tried my best to avoid running any trim enabled kernels. I don't know if Slimbean has trim enabled, I asked a couple times in the thread and never got a response, so I figured I'd try it and with the number of people using it I figured that it was disabled since I hadn't seen anyone having any trouble with it.
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CWM question

I have read everything I can find and I am still confused. I built a bootable CWM card for the HD+ using the root and extras thread and that works fine. I downloaded cwm-recovery-ovation-2.zip and using the aforementioned card wrote the new boot loader and it says it was successful yet I can't boot into recovery. Am I using the right file is there something else that needs to be done?
jpisini said:
I have read everything I can find and I am still confused. I built a bootable CWM card for the HD+ using the root and extras thread and that works fine. I downloaded cwm-recovery-ovation-2.zip and using the aforementioned card wrote the new boot loader and it says it was successful yet I can't boot into recovery. Am I using the right file is there something else that needs to be done?
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How are you trying to boot to recovery? What commands are you using?
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leapinlar said:
How are you trying to boot to recovery? What commands are you using?
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OK maybe that is my issue. On my last tablet and my phone I hold down a couple of keys and I can get to CWM. I take it that is not true with the HD+?
jpisini said:
OK maybe that is my issue. On my last tablet and my phone I hold down a couple of keys and I can get to CWM. I take it that is not true with the HD+?
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It is true, you just have to know which keys. Hold power and the n key together for a few seconds when it first starts booting. Release before it turns itself off and it should boot to recovery. If the flash took, it boots to CWM. If it did not take, it boots to stock recovery and asks if you want to clear data.
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leapinlar said:
...Release before it turns itself off and it should boot to recovery...
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Ugh, I could have used this email bit of info a while ago I ended up setting up adb to boot into recovery... Couldn't figure out why the dang thing kept shutting off.
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Excellent I will have to play with it. Tried a couple of times this morning but didn't get into anything. I have to go to work I will try later. Thanks man.
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Thanks again man! I got it. You have to turn it on first, then hold down the "n" key, then hold down power again for about 5 seconds. I am used to my other devices you start with the device off not booting up.
Hopefully this will help someone else. I am doing a backup now so I can start playing without worry.
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jpisini said:
Thanks again man! I got it. You have to turn it on first, then hold down the "n" key, then hold down power again for about 5 seconds. I am used to my other devices you start with the device off not booting up.
Hopefully this will help someone else. I am doing a backup now so I can start playing without worry.
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Thanks from me too. Same problem and would never have found that particular key combination without your help.

Enteranl Boot Loop on HD+

I wanted to put this out there and see if anyone had any suggestions for a etneral loop Nook HD+
OK, so THe Nook HD+ SEEMS to charge fine (plug into wall ligbht goes green then orange then green again much later).
I plug it into a computer (windows 7) and it goes "Burrrip" but I can;t see it in the devices.
I have treid the hard reset (holding the power and "n" key for 20 to 30 seconds and then trying to restart but nothing.
The Nook just hangson the initial boot screen (white nook on a blck background).
Does anyone think that I might be able to get it to boot from SD? Just curious if the boot from SD would occur after where it is hanging or if it might work.
If the SD might work...what is the best option. Stock ROM would be fine.
Thanks for any help.
I know there are a few threads dedicated to SD cards, mainly seeing if it is worth the time to play.
Thanks.!
Yes, it should boot to a bootable SD. Go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and make a bootable CWM SD per item 1a. Then flash one of the plain stock zips I have in item 6. Also do a factory reset with the CWM.
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Thanks
leapinlar said:
Yes, it should boot to a bootable SD. Go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and make a bootable CWM SD per item 1a. Then flash one of the plain stock zips I have in item 6. Also do a factory reset with the CWM.
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Thanks. I will try that. Glad to hear it is not hopeless.
Still not working
I made the card per your instructions and it seemed to go fine. I placed it in the HD+ and turned it on and nothing. Now, I have a Lexar 6 card. Will that matter? I have seen where most people say to use 4s. Just happen to have that one on hand. Do you notice any better success when you burn an image as oppsed to the "new" method?
Just curious. Any other tips or tircks you can offer? What about opening it up and disconnecting the battery and letting it fully poser down?
Hoping it is not just bricked.
Thanks for the help.
Jason
Another card could help. And either method of making the card can work. Usually best to try one and if it does not work, try the other.
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help! wont turn on or go into recovery

I can't seem to get my nook he plus to turn on after I try to do a hard reboot I get a small green and purple square in the middle of screen that stays for like 5 seconds then it just turns off .any ideas?
i have the same thing happening to me. i did get it to show the nook logo, then black screen for a second, then cyanogenmod then reboot.
i only got it to do that after having it charge for 3 hours.
i swear i will have EVERYTHING password protected from now on, since some little nephew of mine was monkeying around with it before it started this.
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I can't seem to get my nook he plus to turn on after I try to do a hard reboot I get a small green and purple square in the middle of screen that stays for like 5 seconds then it just turns off .any ideas?
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What you are seeing is the nook trying to repair itself with stock recovery (it is going into recovery, stock recovery). It is apparently not successful in completing the repair.
Have you tried a bootable CWM SD? Go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature to make one.
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leapinlar said:
What you are seeing is the nook trying to repair itself with stock recovery (it is going into recovery, stock recovery). It is apparently not successful in completing the repair.
Have you tried a bootable CWM SD? Go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature to make one.
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Thank you! I thought I did.is that where you burn the image on the sd? If so I did that before I had this problem
awdlexusis said:
Thank you! I thought I did.is that where you burn the image on the sd? If so I did that before I had this problem
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Yes that is what you do. Will it boot to that card?
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leapinlar said:
Yes that is what you do. Will it boot to that card?
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No it will not .can't even get to recovery .

[Q] loading recovery sd hold n for boot menu /bootdata/BCB missing. running recovery

what does this mean," loading recovery from sd... hold n for boot menu /bootdata/bcb missing. running recovery ".
can i recover from this and how?
hydro6773 said:
what does this mean," loading recovery from sd... hold n for boot menu /bootdata/bcb missing. running recovery ".
can i recover from this and how?
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Huh? Are these messages you received or something? What is it you are doing?
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leapinlar said:
Huh? Are these messages you received or something? What is it you are doing?
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yes thats the msg i see with my sdcard in
i just want to get my nook hd working like it came from the store again. i am soo in over my head. i feel like eventually im gona brick this thing and its gonna be a 150 dollar paper weight.
without my sd card inserted it boots into emms cwm based recovery
please help someone
hydro6773 said:
yes thats the msg i see with my sdcard in
i just want to get my nook hd working like it came from the store again. i am soo in over my head. i feel like eventually im gona brick this thing and its gonna be a 150 dollar paper weight.
without my sd card inserted it boots into emms cwm based recovery
please help someone
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Go to my HD/HD+ CWM thread linked in my signature and make a new bootable CWM SD per item 1a. Use that to flash a plain stock zip from item 6 followed by a factory reset with CWM. You will be back to pure stock.
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So if I am reading item 1a correctly to make the cwm sdcard, us the Mini-Tool Partition Wizard and set the only partition there to active. And then copy the NookHDplus-factory-2.2.0-plain-stock zip to the sd card. And then boot up the Nook and install zip from sd card? And thats it? I should be back to stock??
Thank you so so so much!! You were so right I am back on stock and now my wife wont make me sleep on the couch anymore. I cant thank you enough. Thanks for being so patient with such a noob like me. From now on I'll check with you guys before I do anything to any of my android devices. Youre the best leapinlar !!!! Thank you so much!!!

[Q] HD+ brick ?

My HD+ ( running CM11.0 on Emmc) worked stable until yesterday. It crashed when i was watching youtube and can not start again.
Nothing happend when i try to start it, black screen all time. I tried "power + n button" method but it not works.
When i plug it into charger, just a green led, not orange as usual. If i hold power button for 10s, the light go out, but it green again after hit the power button one more time
When i connect it to computer, my computer said it was a " OMAP4470" device and can not fond any driver, and a green led on tablet
So can anyone tell me how to solve this? I'm Vietnam so i can not return this tablet to any B&N store.
( sorry for my bad English )
If you hook it up to a PC does it show up? Did you notice if it overheated or if there were any smells at the time?
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jpisini said:
If you hook it up to a PC does it show up? Did you notice if it overheated or if there were any smells at the time?
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when i connect it with my computer, computer just only said that there is one new device name "OMAP4470" connected, and search for driver, but it can not find any driver
My Tablet worked normally, i have not seen any sight of brick
dtonebk said:
when i connect it with my computer, computer just only said that there is one new device name "OMAP4470" connected, and search for driver, but it can not find any driver
My Tablet worked normally, i have not seen any sight of brick
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Have you tried booting with a bootable CWM SD?
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leapinlar said:
Have you tried booting with a bootable CWM SD?
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Yes, i tried a normal cwm sd card
, but nothing happend when i hit the power button. The green led only appear when connect to charger or computer
I even remove the battery, and assemble it again but nothing happend except green led
Is this an emmc corrupt error ?
dtonebk said:
I even remove the battery, and assemble it again but nothing happend except green led
Is this an emmc corrupt error ?
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It sounds like it. I suggest a warranty exchange. Don't tell them you had CM on it. Since it will not boot they cannot tell.
Edit: just looked back and see you are Vietnam. Not much you can do.
Edit2: you might try verygreen's noemmc version on SD. Search the forum for noemmc.
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leapinlar said:
It sounds like it. I suggest a warranty exchange. Don't tell them you had CM on it. Since it will not boot they cannot tell.
Edit: just looked back and see you are Vietnam. Not much you can do.
Edit2: you might try verygreen's noemmc version on SD. Search the forum for noemmc.
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thanks
i tried to download IMG file to burn into SD card ( from this page " iamafanof.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/cm11-0-kitkat-android-4-4-2-for-bricked-no-emmc-nook-hd-02apr2014 " )
but unfortunately, the IMG is corrupted and i can not find any other site provide this file.
Any ideas ?
dtonebk said:
thanks
i tried to download IMG file to burn into SD card ( from this page " iamafanof.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/cm11-0-kitkat-android-4-4-2-for-bricked-no-emmc-nook-hd-02apr2014 " )
but unfortunately, the IMG is corrupted and i can not find any other site provide this file.
Any ideas ?
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Nope, the only other one I know is verygreen's and his is not CM11. And I think the one you were trying to download is for the HD, not the HD+.
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leapinlar said:
Nope, the only other one I know is verygreen's and his is not CM11. And I think the one you were trying to download is for the HD, not the HD+.
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can you show me detail ?
i downloaded this file " sdcard-cwm-early-noemmc-2.img.gz "
burned it to my SD card, put the SD to my HD+, but nothing happen, i can not start me tablet, it's only green when i attach to the charger or computer
dtonebk said:
can you show me detail ?
i downloaded this file " sdcard-cwm-early-noemmc-2.img.gz "
burned it to my SD card, put the SD to my HD+, but nothing happen, i can not start me tablet, it's only green when i attach to the charger or computer
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You did unarchive the file so that it was an .img file, right? I don't know much about it and verygreen is no longer active.
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leapinlar said:
You did unarchive the file so that it was an .img file, right? I don't know much about it and verygreen is no longer active.
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of course, i extracted it, and have a .IMG file
then using Win32DiskImager to burn it
and i put the SD card to my HD+ by nothing happen when i hit the power button
dtonebk said:
of course, i extracted it, and have a .IMG file
then using Win32DiskImager to burn it
and i put the SD card to my HD+ by nothing happen when i hit the power button
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Like I said, I don't know much about it. But it might be the brand and class of the SD.
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somebody help me please
dtonebk said:
thanks
i tried to download IMG file to burn into SD card ( from this page " iamafanof.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/cm11-0-kitkat-android-4-4-2-for-bricked-no-emmc-nook-hd-02apr2014 " )
but unfortunately, the IMG is corrupted and i can not find any other site provide this file.
Any ideas ?
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The mirror download link on the iamafanof site has a valid IMG file for download.

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