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[Q] I have totally messed up my Nook Color

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

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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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.

MentalDragon said:
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.

Rooted Nook Color Stuck Boot on Dev Screen

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!!!!

Nook ver 1.2 and 1.3 can't upgrade after downgrade

When I bought this Nook a few months back it was shipped with v 1.2. Now that I have messed it up and recovered it I'm on 1.0.1. Is there a way to get back to 1.2?
Also now my Nook says I have no storage. I have no books downloaded, it's just after the factory reset.

It says there is no storage because you are not on 1.2 or above. Just update manually through BN.
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koopakid08 said:
It says there is no storage because you are not on 1.2 or above. Just update manually through BN.
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Thanks for the reply. My problem is now that when I connect the Nook to the computer (linux Ubuntu), two drives show up both named B&N eReader. Neither can be opened. I suspect it's due to the fact that it shows no storage. How do I go about upgrading through B&N?
Maybe I have to use Windows? The 1.2 version before I started tinkering was recognised by Ubuntu Linux. Any help so I don't get murdered by my 9 year old for breaking her Nook is appreciated.

So are you on 1.2 now? Try making a bootable clockwork card and flashing this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050520
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koopakid08 said:
So are you on 1.2 now? Try making a bootable clockwork card and flashing this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050520
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No I'm not on 1.2. I used to be but after "bricking" it and bringing it back I now have 1.0.1. I also have a bootable clockwork sd card. My question was how to get to 1.2 or 1.3 and you answered it by the link. Than you very much. I love you guys

loveubuntu said:
When I bought this Nook a few months back it was shipped with v 1.2. Now that I have messed it up and recovered it I'm on 1.0.1. Is there a way to get back to 1.2?
Also now my Nook says I have no storage. I have no books downloaded, it's just after the factory reset.
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It would help us more if we knew what you did/tried to do when messing it up... was it one of the "restore nook to stock" cwr images you used?
Try using the 8 failed boot attempts.... if you haven't messed up your recovery partition it should restore you to the version that was originally installed on your NC.
To help troubleshoot and fix it is really helpful to tell us what happened... you could also try using the cwr restore to stock 1.2 or the cwr update to 1.2 or 1.3 files.

DizzyDen said:
It would help us more if we knew what you did/tried to do when messing it up... was it one of the "restore nook to stock" cwr images you used?
Try using the 8 failed boot attempts.... if you haven't messed up your recovery partition it should restore you to the version that was originally installed on your NC.
To help troubleshoot and fix it is really helpful to tell us what happened... you could also try using the cwr restore to stock 1.2 or the cwr update to 1.2 or 1.3 files.
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Thanks for your reply DizzyDen. As I mentioned in the post before yours, I think I'm all OK now. I had made a bootable CM7 sd card to have stock/CM7 (without and with SD) but somehow had CWR installed on the emmc.
Then trying to upgrade to 1.3 from their website, I was not allowed. So what I had to do was to make a bootable CWR sd card, boot from the sd card and remove the CWR from emmc (used a flashable zip found on forums) and then flash a 1.0.1 image. Then I used the 1.2 update from the above link to update to 1.2 and then used the 1.3 from B&N website to upgrade to 1.3. Now I'm where I want to be but thinking about rooting again It's too much excitement but didn't have to be.
I think I must have tried to flash CWR recovery with the ROM Manager app when I had the CM7 bootable sd card in that caused all these problems. It's nice to have the bootable CWR though.

loveubuntu said:
When I bought this Nook a few months back it was shipped with v 1.2. Now that I have messed it up and recovered it I'm on 1.0.1. Is there a way to get back to 1.2?
Also now my Nook says I have no storage. I have no books downloaded, it's just after the factory reset.
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You can get you Nook back to the factory 1.2 by following procedure the it described near the end of the first post at
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054027
Look for the "Complete Wipe" heading.

BASIC! said:
You can get you Nook back to the factory 1.2 by following procedure the it described near the end of the first post at
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054027
Look for the "Complete Wipe" heading.
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thanks, i wonder why this isn't included in the guide sticky thread. Also, is there a simpler way to complete wipe than the 8 reboot sequence? a script?

loveubuntu said:
thanks, i wonder why this isn't included in the guide sticky thread. Also, is there a simpler way to complete wipe than the 8 reboot sequence? a script?
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Here's a BootCnt file and a dos batch file that will make it a LOT easier for ya if you have adb running...

DizzyDen said:
Here's a BootCnt file and a dos batch file that will make it a LOT easier for ya if you have adb running...
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Thank you. I have adb and will give it a whirl later. I'm still stcuk with trying to have a working ROM on the nook. The Phiremod7.1 which is based on CM7 seems to be working fine now but I can't get any CM7 nightlys to show any soft keys at the bottom, hence no back or notification bars. I'm going to try a stable one to see if that maybe the problem. Funny that I was able to run the nightlies when I was off of SD.
Also while I have your ear, , I'm a bit confused about this wiping and rooting business with the nook. I'd appreciate any help for me to understand it a litlle better. Excuse my ignorance.
Why can't a complete wipe be performed when booted from a CWM sd card? In the numerous phones I have rooted the sequence is easy: root, install custom recovery, nandroid back up, wipe data/system/cache/dalvik and then install a new rom. In the nook,, I still get residual from the last rom (my wifi settings, wallpaper, B&N registration info) unless I do the 8 reboot sequence. What does the 8 reboot wipe that we can't wipe any other way? What does emmc format accomplish then?
Also, how is it that I can install a rom through an SD card without ever rooting the nook?
TIA

loveubuntu said:
Thank you. I have adb and will give it a whirl later. I'm still stcuk with trying to have a working ROM on the nook. The Phiremod7.1 which is based on CM7 seems to be working fine now but I can't get any CM7 nightlys to show any soft keys at the bottom, hence no back or notification bars. I'm going to try a stable one to see if that maybe the problem. Funny that I was able to run the nightlies when I was off of SD.
Also while I have your ear, , I'm a bit confused about this wiping and rooting business with the nook. I'd appreciate any help for me to understand it a litlle better. Excuse my ignorance.
Why can't a complete wipe be performed when booted from a CWM sd card? In the numerous phones I have rooted the sequence is easy: root, install custom recovery, nandroid back up, wipe data/system/cache/dalvik and then install a new rom. In the nook,, I still get residual from the last rom (my wifi settings, wallpaper, B&N registration info) unless I do the 8 reboot sequence. What does the 8 reboot wipe that we can't wipe any other way? What does emmc format accomplish then?
Also, how is it that I can install a rom through an SD card without ever rooting the nook?
TIA
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I have only recently noticed the remnant effect of previous data... I suspect it has something to do with B&N's newest software effecting the ability to wipe the partitions... perhaps formatting the partitions first would assist.
The 8 failed boots completely re-initializes the Nook with the factory backup data stored on mmcblk0p3... there is the complete rom and device specific backup stored in zip files there.
You can install a ROM by booting off the SD because B&N set our nooks up to boot from SD first... so when you do nothing from the Internal storage is loaded upon boot... so its not in use and can easily be manipulated.

Nook won't boot

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?

leapinlar said:
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.

****ed up my nook color

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.